CHAPTER 148
Sir Joseph Lister
Sir Joseph Lister, from our archives
This February marks the 100th anniversary of the passing of Sir Joseph Lister. The father of modern antiseptic surgery, he was also the inspiration behind the founding of Johnson & Johnson. It was Lister’s lecture at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition that led medicinal plaster maker Robert Wood Johnson and his brothers to start a company to make the first mass produced sterile surgical dressings and sterile sutures and actively promote the adoption of sterile surgery. Today, non-sterile surgery would be unthinkable, but it wasn’t all that l
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