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who killed herself with carbolic acid, surely ought to stir this community to action in regard to the sale of that poison and the passage of a law restricting its sale to properly prepared ...

Disinfection campaigns were the order of the day. In some places they ran carbolic acid through sewers, actually spreading the disease faster because it flushed out rats that had lived there.

An example of a machine used by Lister to spray carbolic acid into the air when he was carrying out an operation This proved that antiseptic surgery significantly reduced the risk of infection ...