Carbolic acid is used against wound infection

The removal was a public-health response to a concentrated Soho outbreak.

His household interviews and mapping supplied evidence for the decision to stop using the pump.

The outbreak had already begun to subside when the handle was removed; the episode supported later work on waterborne disease.

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.

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

He told a Berlin scientific society that he had identified the bacterium responsible for TB.

The announcement connected tuberculosis to a specific bacterial agent.

Koch’s findings opened pathways to laboratory detection, although effective treatment took much longer.

The annual 24 March date commemorates Koch’s disclosure rather than the eradication of tuberculosis.