Carbolic acid spray

Apparatus used to disinfect operating rooms, a procedure that resulted from the work of the English surgeon Joseph Lister (1827-1912). Following Pasteur's teachings on the origin of fermentation and putrefaction, he introduced asepsis in all surgical operations. In 1868, after realizing that microbes existed in the air, he instituted the practice of spraying surgical rooms with carbolic antiseptic acid, which considerably reduced deaths from septicemia and gangrene.
England