On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- 1867
- Language
- English
- Length
- Short · 15 ppunder 120 pages
- Difficulty
- Moderate2 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendThe Harvard Classics, Volume 38: Scientific PapersP. F. Collier and Son, 1910The paper as the Harvard Classics print it, beside Harvey, Jenner and Pasteur; free online.
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A paper read to the British Medical Association in Dublin in 1867 and printed in the British Medical Journal and the Lancet. Lister takes Pasteur's finding that putrefaction is caused by living germs in the air and applies it to surgery. He describes treating compound fractures, abscesses and wounds in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary with carbolic acid dressings, and reports that his wards, once notorious for hospital gangrene and pyaemia, had become healthy. It is the founding document of antiseptic surgery.
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