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The history of sterilization
Ancient heritage: BC484
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Cleanliness or disinfecting process is beginnings of sterilization.
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The antiseptic having been used to Egyptians’ corpses.
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Hippocrates : The importance of boiled water and hand- washing in cleansing wounds, operator’s hands and nails’ cleanliness, and doing medication dressing on the wound.
Henry William (1774)
Devised dry- heat sterilizer
Pasteur Louis (1860)
Established bases of sterile operations, initiator of low-temperature sterilizing methods
Chamber Charles (1897)
Made steam pressure sterilizer firstly in the world
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