đź“… 12 Augustus 1865
He used carbolic-acid-soaked lint on eleven-year-old James Greenlees’s open leg fracture.
đź“… 12 Augustus 1865
James Greenlees was the patient whose case became central to Lister’s early account of antiseptic surgery.
đź“… 12 Augustus 1865
The dressing was designed to keep damaging microorganisms from multiplying in an open wound.
đź“… 12 Augustus 1865
Greenlees’s recovery strengthened Lister’s later published argument, although a single case could not establish the method alone.
