<Tr> <Th> Institutions </Th> <Td> King's College London University of Glasgow University of Edinburgh University College, London </Td> </Tr> <P> Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM PC PRS FRS (5 April 1827--10 February 1912), known between 1883 and 1897 as Sir Joseph Lister, Bt., was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery . </P> <P> He promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary . Lister successfully introduced carbolic acid (now known as phenol) to sterilise surgical instruments and to clean wounds . </P> <P> Applying Louis Pasteur's advances in microbiology, Lister championed the use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic, so that it became the first widely used antiseptic in surgery . He first suspected it would prove an adequate disinfectant because it was used to ease the stench from fields irrigated with sewage waste . He presumed it was safe because fields treated with carbolic acid produced no apparent ill - effects on the livestock that later grazed upon them . </P>

Who discovered that sterilizing surgical instruments with antiseptics would help prevent infection
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