 Later, on 9 August 1867, he read a paper before the British Medical Association in Dublin, on the "Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery", which was reprinted in "The British Medical Journal".His work was groundbreaking and laid the foundations for a rapid advance in infection control that saw modern antiseptic operating theatres widely used within 50 years.Lister continued to develop improved methods of antisepsis and asepsis when he realised that infection could be better avoided by preventing bacteria from getting into wounds in the first place.