Phenol acid. After setting the bone and supporting the leg with splints, Lister soaked clean cotton towels in undiluted carbolic acid and applied them to the wound, covered with a layer of tin foil, leaving them for four days. When he checked the wound, Lister was pleasantly surprised to find no signs of infection, just redness near the edges of the wound from mild burning by the carbolic acid. Reapplying fresh bandages with diluted carbolic acid, the boy was able to walk home after about six weeks of treatment. By 16 March 1867, when the first results of Lister's work were
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