Since a long stretch of nearly 150 years from Semmelweis ; and almost 100 good years from Lister there have been really a sea-change with respect to the highly specific and precise manipulative, logical, and scientific control of the ‘microbial growth’ both by physical methods and chemical methods.
MICROBIAL
CONTROL BY PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL METHODS
INTRODUCTION
The
wonderful universally accepted and recognized concept and idea of ‘microbial control’ was predominantly
introduced in the domain of microbiology
by two altogether entirely different
dedicated researchers, namely :
Ignatz
Semmelweis (1816 – 1865)—Hungarian Physician ;
Joseph
Lister (1827–1912)—British Physician.
Interestingly,
Semmelweis was pioneer in the introduction of strict mandatory procedures to
wash the hands of all personnels
with chlorinated lime water (i.e., bleaching powder containing
approx. 38% available chlorine), which procedure significantly reduced the exhorbitant
rate of infection. Likewise, Lister accomplished enormous success by treating
the surgical wounds with solutions of ‘phenol’
(i.e., carbolic acid) ; ever the
surgical procedures were carried out in an adequate carbolic acid aerosol
environment, which in turn drastically minimized the incidence of any probable
wound infection.
Since a
long stretch of nearly 150 years from Semmelweis ; and almost 100 good years
from Lister there have been really a sea-change with respect to the highly
specific and precise manipulative, logical, and scientific control of the ‘microbial growth’ both by physical methods and chemical methods.
Now, each
of these two aforesaid methodologies
will be treated individually in the sections that follows with appropriate
typical examples wherever necessary.
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