The Lister Institute

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. The archive of the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.

The Lister Institute was founded in 1891, as the British Institute of Preventive Medicine. For more than twenty years, arguably even longer, it was the most important medical research institution in the United Kingdom, ranking internationally with the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the Koch Institute in Germany, and the Rockefeller Institute in the United States. Comparable facilities were not made...

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. Seeking Lister in the Wellcome collections.

The figure of Joseph Lister (1827-1912), which bestrides the late Victorian medical world like a colossus, is curiously elusive in the collections of the Wellcome Institute Library. In contrast to his near contemporary, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), over three hundred of whose letters had been acquired by the time of Sir Henry Wellcome's death (and many more since), Lister's was a sporadic ...

Lord Lister

i hp; medical man who wishes to gain a clear idea of the broad foundations upon which modern medicine and surgery are based should read two great books which are almost twin classics; Rene Vallery Radot's Life of Pasteur" (English translation by Mrs. Devonshire), and Sir Rickman Godlee's "Lord Lister," the re-appearance of which in a third edition we cordially welcome. Both are finely written s...

Lister: An Appreciation

While the civilised world is mourning one of the supreme benefactors of the human race, who has passed away in a ripe and honoured old age, it may interest the readers of the Journal, Specially its \*ounger subscribers, to peruse some personal reminiscences of the man and his work by one who knew him intimately, and who worked under him in the later seventies, when he was still almost alone in ...

The Lister Ward at Glasgow Royal Infirmary