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Steam-sterilized overalls, caps, masks and rubber gloves on doctors and nurses, perfectly sterilized instruments, operating tables, and theaters took the place of the old germ-infected operating rooms, doctors in garments blood-stained from a hundred operations, instruments which carried bacteria from one patient's festering wound to the next, and sponges which had been perfunctorily rinsed was called carbolic.  A French chemist in Lille studying why wine and beer turned bad in the vats, an English surgeon in Glasgow desperately fighting to save his patients from the awful scourges of disease septic, and a Hungarian as wounds or the incisions from doctor in Vienna toll of the mothers after the Lister children were equally their desperate at born in his maternity operations the became terrible death- hospital. One the ugliest fights of Lister's career was with the Glasgow Infirmary (name of a hospital) where he had started his practice of antiseptic surgery, for they bitterly resented an attack upon the position of their buildings, which happened to be built a few feet above a cholera pit where hundreds of bodies were still decaying   However, one terrible thing some original surgery turned gangrenous days the this or from the surgeon's knife, wounds became inflamed , or developed some similar terrible degeneration, and in a few patient died as the whole blood stream poisoned. Operations performed by his sterilized instruments and cleaned with his sterilized swabs left cuts which naturally healed, when under the old system they would have besken down into gangrene or some other of the dread hospital diseases. That discovery was germs, microbes, and the minute organisms which could only be seen through the most powerful microscopes, but which bred a life of their own able to destroy the living tissues infected by them.