Following Louis Pasteur’s discovery of germ theory, Joseph Lister found a way to kill germs in an operating theatre. This reduced the risk of infection. Joseph Lister was a Scottish surgeon. He ...

Adding antibiotic or antiseptic soaked patches to pre-prepared agar plates. By adding filter paper soaked in a variety of anti-microbial solutions to the pre-prepared agar plate (method A), the ...

A little-known non-toxic antiseptic developed in the Soviet Union during the Cold War has enormous ... However, it is barely known elsewhere and there is almost no mention of it in the English ...

in 1649 -- English physician Joseph Lister, who introduced antiseptic surgery, in 1827 -- Educator Booker T. Washington in 1856 -- Physicist Hedwig Kohn in 1887 -- Actor Spencer Tracy in 1900 ...