In 1865, Joseph Lister (originally from Essex) applied a piece of lint
dipped in carbolic acid solution onto the compound leg fracture of an eleven-year-old boy at Glasgow Infirmary – after six weeks, the boy’s bones had fused back together, without suppuration.  He subsequently published his results in The Lancet.
His inspiration had been Pasteur’s work on germs.  Carbolic acid (phenol) from coal tar was used on sewage to reduce smell, and appeared safe to animals grazing.  He also instructed surgeons under his responsibility to wash their hands before and after operations with 5% carbolic acid solutions, instruments too, assistants sprayed the solution in the operating theatre. He also championed clean gloves.
The work of Semmelweis 20 years previously had been heavily debated, and antisepsis was still not universally practised, although James Simpson (Edinburgh) wrote a letter saying that British Obstetricians were already handwashing with chlorine.
Murdoch Cameron performed the first Caesarean section under antiseptic conditions at Rotten Row, 1888 (patient with rickets).  (wikipedia doesn’t mention though, cites US and African examples!)