Joseph Lister efficacy of carbolic acid when applied directly to wounds. Therefore, Lister tested the results of spraying instruments, the surgical incisions, and dressings with a solution of carbolic acid. Lister found that the solution swabbed on wounds remarkably reduced the incidence of gangrene. In August 1865, Lister applied a piece of lint dipped in carbolic acid solution onto the wound of a seven-year-old boy at Glasgow Infirmary, who had sustained a compound fracture after a cart wheel had passed over his leg. After four days, he renewed the pad and discovered that no infection had developed, and after a total of
Litigation before the judgment in Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co Litigation before the judgment in Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co The Litigation before the judgment in "Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company" was a rather decorated affair, considering that a future Prime Minister served as counsel for the company. A close reading of the submissions and the decision in the Queen's Bench show that the result of the Court of Appeal was not inevitable or necessarily a decision on orthodox principles of previous case law. For the facts and full final decision, see "Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company". At first instance, on the 4th of July 1892, in