Joseph Lister was born in 1827 in Essex, now in London, into a prosperous family. His father Joseph Jackson Lister was a wine merchant and an amateur physicist and microscopist. He realised that the process behind fermentation might also be involved with wound infection. In his ward, Lister began his experiments with antisepsis. The sepsis cases in his ward came down drastically.

Source: The Hindu June 03, 2021 05:29 UTC