Listers Oil

[Delightful]

An acquaintance was rambling on Facebook and mentioned this:

I ended up on this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…/Joseph_Lister,_1st_Baron_Lister, which describes how Joseph Lister discovered that if surgeons washed their hands and tools in carbolic acid, way fewer people died of gangrene.

Listers oil! Anti-septic!

Earth is connected to Roshar Reckoners is Cosmere confirmed!  

 

 

[Oversleep]

I knew it sounded familiar! I knew about Lister, I just never made the Connection.

Also, silly Del: Reckoners are actually Dragonsteel

[Delightful]

9 minutes ago, Oversleep said:

I knew it sounded familiar! I knew about Lister, I just never made the Connection.

Also, silly Del: Reckoners are actually Dragonsteel

I thought Rithmatist was Dragonsteel! What is this heresy?!

[marsoupial they/them]

Plot twist: it's actually called Listener's oil, and you don't want to know how that comes about. 

[Delightful]

Just now, bleeder said:

Plot twist: it's actually called Listener's oil, and you don't want to know how that comes about. 

Is that like baby powder?  

[skaa he/him]

Yeah, Joseph Lister used carbolic acid in his hospital after reading about Pasteur's work on microbes. Unfortunately, carbolic acid is caustic and toxic, and has now been replaced by safer alternatives in hospitals.

Listerine, invented by another Joseph (Joseph Lawrence) only 14 years after Joseph Lister started the practice of using antiseptics, was named after Lister, and was originally used as a safer surgical antiseptic.

It contains several essential oils (dissolved in alcohol) that have antiseptic properties. The Listerine mouthwash sold today began as a distilled form of the original formula.

I'm not saying that Lister's oil is Listerine. It could be any oil-based antiseptic, even a completely fictional substance, that Brandon decided to name after the Father of Modern Surgery. Like, maybe Lister's oil has antiseptic essential oils like Listerine but dissolved in vegetable oil instead of alcohol.

(I've also read that carbolic acid was once dissolved in vegetable oil and used as an anesthetic, but again its caustic nature became an issue.)

Edited March 1, 2017 by skaa

[Erunion he/him]

A couple of months ago I made this connection while reading a biography of Louis Pasteur - who's germ theory of disease and work on vaccinations inspired and encouraged Lister. 

But yes, Kaladin uses Listerine. 

[marsoupial they/them]

Ok, but, now what about Listenerine?

[Delightful]

2 hours ago, bleeder said:

Ok, but, now what about Listenerine?

Mouth wash designed to......clean overlapping jaws? 

[Stark he/him]

So, if we dipped Nightblood in Lister's Oil, would that help with his bad breath problems?

[karsen]

On 3/1/2017 at 7:45 AM, Stark said:

So, if we dipped Nightblood in Lister's Oil, would that help with his bad breath problems?