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The widespread introduction of antiseptic surgical methods followed the publishing of the paper Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery in 1867 by Joseph Lister, inspired by Louis Pasteur 's germ theory of putrefaction.
Nor are these medical and surgical gifts limited to the era of modern warfare. The French army surgeon Jean Louis Petit invented the screw tourniquet in 1718; it made possible leg amputation above the knee. The Napoleonic Wars of the early nineteenth century brought us the first field hospitals along with battlefield nursing and ambulances.