In 1865 Joseph Lister began using carbolic acid as this, from the Latin for "against putrefaction"
1865 Luis - introduced hand and wound asepsis with use of carbolic acid 
as... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "The Medical and surgical reporter" - Internet Archive [PAR] Carbolic acid ; injections, 155 ; use of, 191; poi- soning, 399 ...... fracture of tibia, 
338 ; for circumcision, 462 ; for abdominal fistula, 523 ; Sir Joseph Lister's, ...... 
About six months prior to her visit to Dr. Jacoby she began to have a peculiar 
tingling ...... with the clean in his red robes merely playing pro- priety with 
classical Latin... [DOC] [TLE] The Project Gutenberg EBook of Experiments on Animals, by ... [PAR] LISTER.