· Seen as “extreme” as the spray soaked the operating theatre, made everything smell and cracked the surgeon’s skin
· Surgeons were still convinced that speed was essential for a successful operation, so they thought that using antiseptics would slow them down
· When some surgeons tried to copy Lister’s methods, they got different results (mainly because they were less systematic)
· As Pasteur’s ideas of the germ theory spread very slowly, surgeons found it hard to accept the idea of micro-organisms, therefore did not believe there was a need for antiseptics
· Lister was always changing his techniques and people thought it was because he believed they were wrong, but it was because he wanted to find a substance that would work even better
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