Johnson worked 12 hour days to try to invent aseptic surgery equipment.

He is the beginner of aseptic surgery.

Joseph Lister was experimenting with Penicillum in 1871 for his aseptic surgery.

It is but a short step from antiseptic operations to our own era of aseptic surgery, and that a step in the direction of simplicity.

Pioneer of aseptic surgery Joseph Lister performed the first major elective surgery under strict antiseptic conditions in 1877.

There is a blue plaque on the exterior of the building, commemorating the pioneer of aseptic surgery, Sampson Gamgee, who once lived on the site.

It is named in honour of Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, a British surgeon known as the pioneer of aseptic surgery.

In 1886, Ernst von Bergmann introduced heat sterilization of surgical instruments, which marked the beginning of aseptic surgery and significantly reduced the frequency of infections.

He pioneered aseptic surgery (having once shared lodgings with Joseph Lister), and, in 1880 invented Gamgee Tissue, an absorbent cotton wool and gauze surgical dressing.

Among his many accomplishments are the introduction and promotion of aseptic surgery and scientific methods in surgery, specifically reducing the mortality of thyroidectomies below 1% in his operations.

He wrote several textbooks and was credited with introducing aseptic surgery techniques and with pioneering methods to treat fractures in small animals and techniques in treatment of spinal-cord injuries, including the design of orthopedic carts.

He finished the war of a thousand days and starts the era of aseptic surgery and infections such as tuberculosis, syphilis, leprosy and the "plague" had few years of having a base where microbiological and environmental health, lay all do.

"By the turn of the century," Mr. Rosenberg notes, "the increasing complexity and effectiveness of aseptic surgery, the advantages of the x-ray and clinical laboratory, the convenience of twenty-four-hour nursing and house-staff attendance were making the hospital operating room the most plausible and convenient place to perform surgery.