Historical Person

James Greenlees

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📍 United Kingdom

James Greenlees

Gender: Male

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Lister applies an antiseptic wound dressing

đź“… 12 August 1865

He used carbolic-acid-soaked lint on eleven-year-old James Greenlees’s open leg fracture.

A child receives a new fracture treatment

đź“… 12 August 1865

James Greenlees was the patient whose case became central to Lister’s early account of antiseptic surgery.

Carbolic acid is used against wound infection

đź“… 12 August 1865

The dressing was designed to keep damaging microorganisms from multiplying in an open wound.

A Glasgow case tests antiseptic surgery

đź“… 12 August 1865

Greenlees’s recovery strengthened Lister’s later published argument, although a single case could not establish the method alone.