Question

What conclusion can be drawn about the relationship of Joseph Lister’s and Louis Pasteur’s work?

a. Lister’s work was only made possible by Pasteur’s discoveries.b. Lister and Pasteur could not have made their discoveries separately.c. Lister’s and Pasteur’s discoveries depended on the work of Marie Curie. d. Pasteur’s work was only made possible by Lister’s discoveries.

Answer 1

What conclusion can be drawn about the relationship of Joseph Lister’s and Louis Pasteur’s work?

Lister’s work was only made possible by Pasteur’s discoveries.

Answer 2

a. Lister’s work was only made possible by Pasteur’s discoveries.

Pasteur first theorized the cause of infection to be germs. Lister built on the "germ theory" and created the ideas of sterile surgery.

Both Pasteur and Lister are credited for revolutionizing surgery to become a sterile process. Without Pasteur's "germ theory", Lister would not have had a theory to work from. The two scientists also corresponded with one another improving the process for sterilization.