Through education and training, Johnson & Johnson has advanced healthcare for more than a century. Comprehensive manuals explaining antiseptic techniques for sterile surgery and first aid, as well as professional journals sharing breakthroughs were among the company’s first publications. In the years since, corporate support for professional medical training and higher education has become a natural extension of this mission. Above all, the company seeks to empower healthcare workers to improve global public health.
Johnson & Johnson’s early sterile surgical products and how-to manuals helped reshaped Americans’ perceptions of physicians and hospitals. Although today, we view hospitals as places of healing and recovery, in the late 19th century, they had the reputation of being unhygienic places that fostered the spread of disease and infection. Because modern surgery was in its earliest stages, for some procedures, survival rates neared zero. Johnson & Johnson’s sterile surgical products prevented infection and bolstered survival rates, while its guides like Modern Methods of Antiseptic Wound Treatment taught doctors how to perform safe procedures according to Dr. Joseph Lister’s sterile methods. Within months of its 1888 publication, Modern Methods had been distributed to 85,000 physicians and pharmacists across the country. In subsequent decades, it became a leading guide on sterile operative methods
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