How Joseph Lister Changed Surgery Forever (Invention of Antiseptic Surgery)

[@SueFerreira75]

Lister was about to give up medicine and become a mathematician, as he couldn't stand the screaming of the patients when surgery was performed without anesthesia. The first surgery under anesthesia was performed at University College Medical School in December 1946 and Lister was present at this surgery. He felt great relief when he realized with anesthesia, he could become a surgeon. The rest is history.

[@jamieb-mo3dl]

1846

[@wholeNwon]

Dr. Crawford Long 1842, Dr. Warren Oct. 1846 at MGH

[@bookaufman9643]

Just thought I'd share. "Phenol (carbolic acid) is one of the oldest antiseptic agents. Apart from being used in many commercially available products, in rural India, it is often used in the household to prevent snake infestation" it's pretty amazing that Lister started with something that is still used as antiseptic and it was also probably really good for keeping out the surgical room's snakes.

[@disketa25]

The weirdest thing is that it is still in use in dire circumstances, as the most ready-avaliable antiseptic in existence. Be it a God-forgotten Arab ruins bombed to oblivion, faraway battlefield no one cares about, middle of Africa or 90s Russia, it still acts as a last resort solution... Even after so many years, no cheaper and more available solution was found for such backup niche despite all the toxicity. P.S. It was even strategically stockpiled in Soviet Union as a "last ditch antiseptic" in ready to use form, as it does not have any specific storage or usage requirements, and could be used in a post-nuclear world reduced to ashes. Don't know about the current state of things there, but still. Truly amazing how perfect the chemical choice was....

[@hive_indicator318]

I hear it also kept out sharks and elephants from his surgery

[@bookaufman9643]

@@hive_indicator318 it was mostly used as rhino, emu and walrus deterrent.

[@joeblow8593]

The mouthwash, Listerine was named after Joseph Lister in 1879 by Joseph Lawrence a chemist in St. Louis, Missouri.

[@legitpancake4276]

The bacteria Listeria is also named after him even though he had nothing to do with its discovery haha

[@didndido3638]

....and has no medical effect whatsoever.

[@13donstalos]

I'm not the first, nor will I be the last (at least for a while) to say that this channel is criminally under-subbed. It's a question of when, not if, it will blow up one day. Great stuff, my dude.

[@Zr0Bites]

He is getting like a thousand subs a day, I think he is going big.

[@Lillireify]

It's still pretty small compared to the amount of views on his vids :/ he absolutely deserves much more!

[@bookaufman9643]

Four-and-a-half years ago I got sepsis from a cat scratch. I ignored the wound as it got red and then hot and even still after a long streak started extending from my wrist all the way into my armpit. Eventually I went to an emergency room and after they saw the red streak they immediately put me into a room with a doctor. The veins had been destroyed by the infection and necrosis and the doctor opening the wound was one of the most disgusting things anybody could imagine. I had to stay in the hospital for a while receiving 24-hour antibiotics. They used many different types by IV and constantly rotated them. I was told that within a day or two I would have had complete organ failure and that I had barely managed to live. I still have some rather gruesome scars on my left arm and a strong distaste for wild animals.😊

[@loraweems8712]

Sepsis is NOT something to ignore. It can go slowly, as in your case, or quite speedily, as with me. In July 2022, I had an outpatient kidney stone removal. Routine, as far as these things go. My procedure had been completed, I was out of recovery, and I was almost ready for my son-in-law to take me home. I already had my shirt on. I stood up to pull my pants up when I suddenly felt dizzy. I turned towards the nurse. I started to tell her about the dizziness, but instead, I vomited and fainted. When I woke up in the hospital room 3 days later, I was informed that I'd had - still had - sepsis and that I'd almost died. I had been on prophylactic antibiotics for 10 days before the stone removal. I was discharged 4 days later, 7 days after the 'outpatient' procedure. I, too, have new scars; for the subclavian port, for IV's in both arms. BTW. My daughter is a cat groomer. Our family well knows just how prone cat scratches and bites are to getting infected. You, my friend, were fantastically lucky!

[@bookaufman9643]

@@loraweems8712 I didn't tell the complete story and I'm sure you would not appreciate how my story ended. I was having an issue with one particular nurse in that hospital and I'm sure that the medication that they were giving me through IV was not helping. For some reason after my surgery she kept coming into my room and doing her paperwork at a small table not far from the bed. This bothered me to know end because I wanted my privacy and wanted to veg out and watch the TV and I was not feeling very good. I also was having issues with her about stupid things like being allowed to put my boxer shorts back on. For some reason she kept objecting to things like that and our relationship was getting sour really quick. I ended up having a big argument with her and at some point I pulled all the tubing out of my arms. This was problematic because I started bleeding and they had to call in a couple people to get me taped up when I refused to put the tubes back in or allowed them to be put back. I decided that I was leaving the hospital and I think I was supposed to stay for at least another 4 or 5 days. I did leave the hospital and wandered around the parking lot and then somehow managed to get a ride to the apartment I was staying at after an hour or two of walking through the streets. When I arrived back at the apartment I could not get anybody to answer the door though the person I was staying with had their car clearly in the parking lot. I ended up climbing a balcony to get to the bedroom French doors and saw her inside and began banging on the window and almost fell below to the concrete. I finally got inside but upon waking up the next morning I could see that there were some stitches that were supposed to be removed and would need to be cut to be removed and I ended up having to do that on my own a couple days later. The other stitches stayed in for a long time and eventually disappeared. All of this goes to show you what a true and utter idiot I am. I still don't know why that woman kept coming into my room and I mean she was doing it every couple hours and she wasn't there to monitor me. It was like I was resting in her break room or something. Still it was stupid of me to do what I did. 😆.

[@epstein_isnt_dead7726]

Y'all got some weak immune systems for a tiny scratch to almost take you out

[@bookaufman9643]

@@epstein_isnt_dead7726 it wasn't a tiny scratch and the cat had feces on its claws. It was multiple scratches because it was a bit of a tussle. I ignored it for quite a long time and it almost killed me. Sepsis can be really tricky like that. It could be a dirty Rusty nail in the scratched or cut doesn't have to be very deep. What it does need is an idiot like me ignoring it because I viewed it the way you just did.

[@epstein_isnt_dead7726]

@@bookaufman9643 no, dude. Cat scratches are tiny and I don't care what was in it's claws. I've had more deep puncture wounds with filthy materials than I can even count and never went to a doctor for it. Put a paper towel around it and wrap it with painters tape and keep on working. Every construction worker and mechanic does this on the regular and they don't get sick. Something is causing people like you to have such a weak immune system that you can't fight off basic infections, because that's not normal

[@whereswaldo5740]

As a nurse of 17 years I can attest to the smells and the nosocomial disease.

[@matthiasknutzen6061]

Im stunned these videos dont have hundreds of thousands of views, come on ln youtube! Recommended these to people

[@statickaeder29]

My father had me read The Century of the Surgeon - this was in the mid 1980's, so I may have been 10-12. I loved it. I'm sure I would love this book that you are referring to, but I gave up my dreams of following my father into medicine a long time ago, and didn't get my autism diagnosis till 7 years ago, at the age of 40. I still love medicine.

[@PatKellyTeaches]

I'll have to check out The Century of the Surgeon; thanks for the recommendation. And welcome to the channel! I hope I can stoke your interest in medicine some more

[@frankdoss6313]

One of the 2 best healers I have known contracted a horrible hospital-borne staph infection that almost ended him as an infant. That was in the 50s in Chicagoland.

[@AllisterCaine]

Healers? It's not what other just call doctors right?

[@InsertMyChineseUsername]

healers?

[@Fractured_Unity]

Healers means such a quack that they can’t legally call themselves doctors.

[@mikey-wo3fq]

love your work bro!

[@PatKellyTeaches]

Appreciate it! Thank you

[@loraweems8712]

Mr. Kelly, could you do an episode about Ignaz Semmelweis? Your shows are so very well done! Thank you!

[@PatKellyTeaches]

Some day in the future, certainly! You are not the only one to suggest a video on him!

[@loraweems8712]

@@PatKellyTeaches thank you so very much!

[@ispejonas]

But Semmelweiss was not anglosaxon so he cannot count.

[@taliwalt5332]

Another truly fantastic video. In a way we all have Queen Victoria’s armpit abscess to thank for hastening the arrival of modern medicine.

[@PatKellyTeaches]

Truly, it was the hero we never expected

[@wholeNwon]

@@PatKellyTeaches And who administered chloroform to her during her last delivery?

[@samuraisoul2]

I read the The Butchering Art about 6 months ago. Great book.

[@ΆγιοςΧίλαριος]

Thanks for your brilliant effort to make such an awesome videos but I think that the first doctor (obstetrician) to suggest and practice antiseptics usage in surgery was Ignaz Semmelweis.

[@HadridarMatramen]

THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING HIM!!!! I keep expecting HIS name to be mentioned, and it never does...!

[@lynndonharnell422]

And the poor dude died unrecognised, dispised, destitute in a mental asylum.

[@assitank4922]

Another well made informative video. Thank you 🌸👍🏼 I’m taking prerequisites for the Medical Lab Technology program at my local college. Will be taking notes from this!❤️☺️

[@PatKellyTeaches]

That's lovely to hear, thank you :)

[@legitpancake4276]

I just graduated with a degree in Medical Laboratory Science and I am now a certified MLS. Wish I had discovered this channel when I was still in school lol.

[@de-fault_de-fault]

1:10 the analogy of Ford to Tesla (the company that should have been called Edison) is excellent since you’re giving Ford credit for an idea that had been percolating for decades or even centuries, and that had even been patented in the realm of car building by Oldsmobile already.

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Joseph Lister, who Listerine was named after! 😊 I'm glad the Almighty Algorithm showed me your channel today. I'm greatly enjoying it!

[@maddy6764]

Lindsay fitzharris is such a good writer

[@PatKellyTeaches]

She's and Mary Roach are the GOATs of this genre

[@algorerhythm7663]

Great storytelling!

[@Venaloid]

6:42 - I'm sorry, so it was just good luck that the sutures did not get infected? Did I miss something?

[@Michael-sb8jf]

The namesake for listerine

[@Yuuuuuuuuu369]

Sorry if some else already pointed it out but the backgrounf music doesn’t much at all with the content on the ‘before lister’ part 😬 is off putting. Otherwise nice video!

[@Leyfandir]

It's a shame that this page has so few followers!

[@crocussaffie2680]

“gross”-look no don’t look....adorable

[@kamalionify]

I LOVE this story 🤍

[@MissySimpleM]

Did you just have a big influx of followers? This video is 2years old but most comments are neweer than 2 weeks? If so, congrats! I'm also a new person. Just found your stuff and it's great

[@sarahchapman6134]

In fifth grade in 1966 a teacher asked for our heroes. Movie stars and sports stars were the common answers. I said Lister and Jenner. The teacher was perplexed. "Who are they? "

[@mangos2888]

False memories are always amazing 😅

[@sarahchapman6134]

What makes you think it was false? My family had a lot of medical professionals and I was a bookworm so I read a lot of biographies about doctors and others.

[@patricial.6758]

I knew who Lister and Jenner were by 5th or 6th grade. Definitely before Jr High. I was reading my Uncle's college textbooks. He lived with us to save during college. His books were fascinating. My 5th grade science books were boring. More about practicing reading than actual scirnce it seemed. BTW the summer before 7th grade, I read two novels Shogun and Jaws.. no joke.

[@wholeNwon]

If you're interested in Jenner, look up Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

[@HadridarMatramen]

I LOVE medical history. One guy I learned about in high school in Norway, was a guy named Semmelweiss. He was a big fan of germ theory, insisted his medical students *washed their hands* between doing autopsies/dissections and going up to help women give birth, to reduce the numbers of mothers and infants dying due to sepsis. And that instruments be boiled and stuff like that. He fought basically his whole life, as far as I remember, to convince the Authorities(tm) where he lived in.... Er. Don't remember if it was Switzerland, Austria or Germany? that miasma theory was passé and germ theory was in. As far as I remember, he was ridiculed and opposed basically his whole life. I *think* he died without being fully believed. Where does he fit into this part of history? I don't think he made any breakthrough *discoveries*, per se, but he certainly fought for acceptance and understanding and implementation of this new science. Like, I keep expecting you to mention him, and you never *do*. Was he, among all the big names of history... Just not that big?

[@PatKellyTeaches]

Semmelweis is an interesting story for sure. I didn’t mention him in this video, honestly, because I was a worse writer back in 2018 when I made the video. 😆 He’ll get his own dedicated video some day

[@HadridarMatramen]

@@PatKellyTeaches Ooooh, that is AWESOME!!!! I really look forward to watch that one day!

[@thelakeman2538]

He lived in the Austrian Empire and was a Hungarian (Austria at that time controlled modern day Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia, parts of Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, parts of Romania, and parts of Italy). And yes he frequently got into fights with his boss at Vienna General Hospital, who did not believe Semmelweiss' methods worked and in fact made the surgery room and birth wards even more nasty than his predecessor by relaxing the stricter cleanliness protocols they had beforehand from what I recall, and the medical profession at the time believed in miasma and humoral theory to explain away postpartum infections. He had to move back to Budapest because his boss at Vienna GH mistrusted him because of him being an Hungarian and the 1848 revolution there. He did successfully apply his methods in Budapest eventually but spent his entire life fighting to gain acceptance of his theory. Semmelweiss' story later in his life is just tragic not helped by his own deteriorating sanity.

[@Davidbirdman101]

I love these old British cartoons man. They are heelareeous!!!!

[@hannahvitu]

Brilliant book and great video inspired by it!

[@PatKellyTeaches]

Glad you enjoyed it! I'm excited for Lindsey's next book too.

[@chandlerzhu9735]

Medical science is quite a niche topic on YT, I am so grateful for your work

[@Butros1]

Great channel!!

[@c.b.816]

Ah, egads! I cannot comprehend the world of the 19th century in all of its abject horror. We tend to romanticize the Victorian era, but it is a nightmare.

[@2nostromo]

What a story. I'm so glad we've advanced medicine so far although there is much to do yet : ) Should we add that there are much better and safer antiseptics available nowadays? I've heard that phenol causes cancer. I use Dettol periodically to clean everything.

[@vaibhavgunjal6413]

Nice video brother 👍👍

[@PatKellyTeaches]

Much appreciated

[@brianhotaling5849]

yeah , but Ford needed Whitney to invent part standardization.

[@BloodStainedTear]

No matter your specialty medicine isn't for the faint of heart not counting chiropractors because I don't group them with doctors

[@mustangnawt1]

Great vid

[@aaronbecker5617]

Great video

[@cynthiaallen1623]

I have tried to watch this twice, but the backup music is really distracting for me. All the others I’ve seen are great. Thanks!

[@shadowcat314]

Cool it with the antiseptic remarks.

[@Chronically_JBoo]

Not me watching this the night before surgery

[@wsswetghg8791]

Why isn't Zemmelweiss mentioned in the video?

[@dalebechtel8904]

How you only have 30k subs is beyond me.

[@Grimm1695]

Video: pythogenesis spreads through the air. Me: ✨Miasma✨

[@calorion]

So why did olive oil work?

[@mercedesCH]

I think you misrepresent the topic. Although yes Lister was a surgeon and helped in the promotion of antiseptics and their use but Semmelweis should at least be mentioned since he is the first to push disinfection.

[@fredashay]

I wonder if Lister and Semmelweis ever consulted each other...

[@vac65]

Well how about dr. Semmelweis Ignác Fülöp? Listers work was a sucsess, Semmelweises was opposed with all the political weapons at hand. I think this must be a future video. Otherwise, good work. Cheesrs mate!

[@mangos2888]

Public Health! Public Health! Public Health! 😂 3:14 - 4:00

[@thecrazyToolfan]

Add more b roll while you're talking, the content is really good otherwise. You should have way more subs and views. You're really good at talking to the camera.

[@BaalFridge]

No offense but I think that's just your attention span being too short

[@joshualieberman7558]

I like the short b-roll because he keeps the pictures relevant. He doesn’t throw a picture in unless it is necessary which means I’m not wondering hey is this picture actually related to the story or just something to keep our attention.

[@Bandybear]

Ummm , the only time I ever go to the doc is when I’m mentally , physically and emotionally prepared to one of the following : loose a body part , manipulated and strong armed last but not least I won’t come out of the appointment at all. Just going off my experience for myself and family members.

[@lildramatic4760]

Lister also censored his aunt Anne Lister’s, historical lesbian, journals. So. You know. Not everyone got to be known as themselves

[@jerrybronham]

cry about it

[@highness..]

So lister is doctor Doddger from the new HBO serie The Artfull Doddger !!!! Omg this is brilliant ✨️✨️✨️✨️

[@angelstevens2782]

Patrick, check this guy's story and make a videos latter. "Ignaz Semmelweis". Cheers.

[@crimony3054]

If you knew the history of modern medicine you would never let them near you, which is why you cannot know the history of modern medicine.

[@Zr0Bites]

I felt the video got better when without music. Just my opinion.

[@PatKellyTeaches]

I agree. Lesson learned after this video and a few others

[@Zr0Bites]

@PatKellyTeaches I didn't notice it was an old video. I've binge watching your content. Clearly, your newer videos are more refined. You're getting bigger by the hour.

[@stephaniemontalvo7470]

dude r u in john crist?

[@osmiumsoul9535]

I think you mean nitrous oxide, not "nitric oxide".

[@kirill9064]

He embedded correction in video.

[@randalalansmith9883]

Nope, nitric. They were working on male enhancement.

[@TeethToothman]

☄️😵☄️

[@Joy-TheLazyCatLady2]

My sister was allergic to ether. It's a good thing there were other things to use. 😂 Domestic abuse is still rampant. 😏 You are in the wrong career if your stomach is that weak. I just finished my dinner. Nothing bothers me but the sound of a breaking bone. So I am OK with whatever you are talking about. ✌🏻

[@jeroenputzeys769]

The background music on this video makes it unwatchable.

[@PatKellyTeaches]

This was one of my earlier videos (originally posted in 2018 on my first channel). I've gotten much better at editing since then

[@Coastal_Cruzer]

Edinbruh

[@henk-3098]

having to remove your sister's boob is pretty wild

[@ryandavis9898]

Pastour showed that a divine being created us not some big fart in the sky that created the universe

[@vtuber_faaaan]

Stepsis? 😮

[@brookst9384]

no 😂

[@johnnesbit2371]

I'm guessing you're a chiropractor??

[@wholeNwon]

There's no reason to insult the man.

[@TeethToothman]

Hahahahaha did you really compare Elon Musk to Henry Ford? Hmmmm maybe their xenophobia and antisemitism but I'm not sure what else.

[@fredchristian9924]

Why have the last couple generations of men decided to take on the mannerisms of teenage girls? You can't say the word puss without squealing and shivering. It's a sad state were in.

[@davek7706]

No mention of Ignaz Semmelweis?

[@PatKellyTeaches]

Ignaz will get his own video someday