A History of Sterilisation: Return to the Past to Interconnect to the Future

The cradle of sterilisation has been around since the beginning of microbial life. Starting with extinctions, ancient sterilisation started with heat-fire, sun drying, burning, baking, boiling, extinction, cooking, mummification-and progressed to quarantining, asepsis, autoclaving, chemical sterilisation, filtration, irradiation, and other earlier similitudes (e.g., antisepsis, bacteriostatic decontamination, high-level disinfection, fumigation, germicide, inhibition, pasteurisation, quaran...