How Did Lister Use Water To Prevent Infection

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After he found the cause of infection, Lister began to find ways to prevent infection. He had read about a chemical called carbolic acid that was poured on fertilizer to stop the spread of disease. Unfortunately, carbolic acid was so strong that it could burn skin, so Lister had to mix it with water to prevent it from harming the patient too much. The first time he used carbolic acid was on an eleven-year-old boy who had broken his leg. Lister covered the boy’s leg with a cloth covered in carbolic acid and the wound healed with no infection. Next, Lister tried his treatment on other patients with the same type of injury and they all had the same success. Then, in 1867 he published his discoveries in a medical journal and later that year he