When western medicine and public sanitation were exported to the least industrialized nations, this caused a surge in their population which outstripped food supply and resulted in malnutrition, mass starvation, and political unrest, this illustrates the description of a Latent Dysfunction.
Answer:
Joseph Lister successfully introduced carbolic acid (now known as phenol) to sterilise surgical instruments and to clean wounds. Applying Louis Pasteur's advances in microbiology, Lister accomplished the use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic, so that it became <u>the first widely used </u><u>antiseptic in surgery</u><u>.</u>
The answer is A) preventive :)
