When Did Doctors Start Disinfecting?
When Did Doctors Start Disinfecting? In 1867, two years after Semmelweis’ death, Scottish surgeon Joseph Lister When did doctors start sterilizing? Two major contributions to the art of sterilization came in the 1860’s when the French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur wrote extensively on how germs cause disease and the English physician, Joseph Lister, developed