1. What is the difference between bacteriostatic and bactericidal?
-Bacteriostatic means that the agent prevents the growth of bacteria and bactericidal means
that it kills bacteria
2. What is the difference between antiseptics and disinfectants?
-antiseptics have been diluted enough so that they do not harm human tissue, applied to the
body. Disinfectant are applied to nonliving surfaces
3. What was the first surgical antiseptic and who first used it?
-Phenol. Joseph Lister
4. What disease of newborns was first treated with silver nitrate drops?
-neonatal ophthalmic gonorrhea
5. How long have iodine solutions been used as antiseptics?
-150 years