Lister, Lord

Carbolic acid is the old-fashioned name for hydroxybenzene (VII), otherwise known as phenol. It was first used as an antiseptic to prevent the infection of post-operative wounds. The British surgeon Joseph (later Lord ) Lister (1827-1912) discovered these antiseptic qualities in 1867 while working as Professor of Medicine at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He squirted a... 

Phenols are extracted commercially from coal tar into aqueous base as the phenolate ions. The major commercial use of phenol is in the manufacture of phenolic resin polymers, usually with formaldehyde. Phenols and cresols are used as antiseptics and disinfectants in areas such as bams where the phenol odor can be tolerated. Phenol was the original antiseptic used on wounds and in surgery, starting with the work of Lord Lister in 1885. 

Lord Lister (Photo from the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh)... 

The circumstances in whidi someone is acting within the course of their emplo5unent appear to be inexorably widening. In May 2001 the House of Lords in Lister Others v. Hesley Hall Ltd decided that a boarding house was liable for claims where there had been sexual abuse of yoxmg pupils by a warden who was one of the employees entrusted with the care of the boys. The decision overruled the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal in Trotman v. North Yorkshire County Council that assault fell outside of a... 

Although Fleming is commonly given credit for the discovery of penicillin, there is good evidence that penicillium mold extracts were used in the nineteenth century by Lord Joseph Lister to cure infections. 

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