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| About half of all patients recovering from surgery died of infections before British surgeon Joseph Lister’s discovery of antiseptics in 1865. Lister found that mortality rates dropped to 15 percent when he used carbolic acid in the operating environment and on patients’ wounds. | ||||||
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| Lister, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister; United Kingdom | ||||||
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