PROFESSOR LISTER ON ANTISEPTIC SURGERY.

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Joseph Lister and the performance of antiseptic surgery

This article highlights a neglected feature of Joseph Lister's work, namely how, in addition to promoting germ theories and the principles of the antiseptic system, he also devoted much time and effort to communicating the performative aspects of antisepsis and of the many other surgical innovations that he developed. Attention to 'detail' and striving for 'improvement' were crucial to Listeria...

Surgery — Antiseptic Vagaries

a pointed stick of orange wood, and the hands scrubbed again; then they should be immersed successively iu solutions of permanganate of potash, oxalic acid, and peroxide of hydrogen; finally, they should be soaked in corrosive sublimate and rinsed with boiled water." Another class of enthusiasts revel in antiseptic polypharmacy. The following (from the American Medico-Surgical Bulletin for May ...

Antiseptic Surgery in Edinburgh

DrrniNG the past winter session I have enjoyed the privilege of closely watching Professor Lister's practice in the surgical wards of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Having attempted ?with, very imperfect success I am bound to confess?to put in practice Mr. Lister's system of Antiseptic Surgery while officiating as Second Surgeon in the Medical College Hospital, I availed myself, with peculiar i...

Three Cases of Antiseptic Surgery

a height, with his left arm doubled up under his body. Not finding his usual medical attendant at home, he came to the General Hospital, where I saw him at about 6-30 a.m. I found he had sustained a compound fracture of the forearm, the ulna being broken, about the middle and the radius rather lower down, there being a jagged wound immediately over the seat of the latter fracture which communic...