Why do they call listerine listerine?

Answer 1

Actually, it was Doctor Joseph Lister who was the inspiration for Listerine the mouthwash.

Dr. Lister (1827-1912) was a pioneering surgeon who noticed that midwife-delivered babies had a lower mortality rate than surgeon-delivered babies. He correctly attributed this difference to the facts that midwives tended to wash their hands more often than surgeons, and that surgeons often would go directly from one surgery, such as draining an abscess, to delivering a baby. He concluded that bacterial infections were being spread from the surgeons to the newborn babies.

Dr. Lister is the father of modern-day aseptic technique. In addition to thoroughly washing his hands between surgical procedures, he would also spray his operating rooms and soak surgical dressings with carbolic acid, an early form of antiseptic. Dr. Lister's techniques were revolutionary, and they were not appreciated by his fellow surgeons - until his post-operative mortality rate drastically plummeted relative to those of other surgeons.

Listerine, developed in 1879 as a surgical antiseptic, and named in honor of Doctor Lister, was later marketed to dentists as an oral antiseptic, and it was the first over-the-counter mouthwash. *edit* Referring to the second paragraph. The correlation between hand washing and mortality rates was actually observed by Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis. Physicians would often go directly from performing an autopsy to examining women in labor; resulting in a mortality rate of almost 90%. He published his observations and was ridiculed until he had a nervous breakdown and died in an asylum.

Answer 2

Joseph Lister was credited for spreading the idea of killing germs with chemicals as a means of preventing disease. The creators of Listerine{R} thought that something that sounded like that doctor's name would lead people to recognize what their product would do.

Answer 3

Listerine got its name from Joseph Lister. He was very fond of the name and he called it Listerine