title: The first 'antiseptic' operation.
abstract: On August 12th 1865, 150 years ago, the Professor of Surgery at the University of Glasgow, Joseph Lister, performed a relatively minor operation in a side ward at the Royal Infirmary, the dressing and splintage of a compound fracture of the left leg. Yet this operation must be regarded as the watershed between two eras of surgery--the primitive and the modern--since it was the first to be performed as an antiseptic procedure.
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ellis
mesh_terms: D000891:Anti-Infective Agents, Local / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D012606:Scotland; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative
chemical_list: D000891:Anti-Infective Agents, Local