Historical Organization
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
He used carbolic-acid-soaked lint on eleven-year-old James Greenlees’s open leg fracture.
James Greenlees was the patient whose case became central to Lister’s early account of antiseptic surgery.
The dressing was designed to keep damaging microorganisms from multiplying in an open wound.
Greenlees’s recovery strengthened Lister’s later published argument, although a single case could not establish the method alone.
