# Joseph Lister (@joseph-lister)

Joseph Lister was a British surgeon and antiseptic-surgery pioneer. Influenced by germ theory, Lister introduced carbolic-acid methods intended to prevent microorganisms from infecting surgical wounds.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Joseph Lister's public record._

## Topics

- [Safer Surgery](/@joseph-lister/safer-surgery.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Antiseptic Practice](/@joseph-lister/antiseptic-practice.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Principal Contribution](/@joseph-lister/principal-contribution.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/library-and-publications/library/blog/joseph-lister/
- blog: https://www.sciencehistory.org/education/scientific-biographies/joseph-lister/
- blog: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/joseph-lister

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "joseph-lister", "question": "…"}`.