The Evolution of Antiseptic Surgery: A Retrospect
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Iu another address delivered three days subsequently before the Surgical Section of the International Congress, Lister referred to some interesting experiments which he had recently performed, showing that putrid blood in full activity, if largely diluted with water purified by boiling, and mixed with a considerable volume of aseptic serum, failed to occasion putrefaction in that serum, or the development of any organism discoverable by ordinary microscopic examination. These experiments confirmed previous ones, which had shown that undiluted healthy serum has great resisting power, and is in fact, itself an antiseptic. It has been already pointed out that blood clot possesses similar powers in accordance with the principle which Lister was the first to demonstrate, viz., that the tissues of healthy living body have a power of counteracting the energies of bacteria in their vicinity and of preventing their development; a clot in a
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