Lord Lister and the Treatment of War Wounds

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  • G. T. Wrench
چکیده

sir,?uenius is the grip upon first principles. Surprise, therefore, is not awakened, when the modern methods of treating war wounds throw a fresh light upon the genius of the greatest of surgeons and a man with every element of genius, Lord Lister. Lister won his first success with his antiseptic system in 1868 and in 1870 the Franco-German war broke out. Preceding this war there had been the Crimean war, in which at Scutari in February 1854 the hospital deaths had been at the rate of 415 per cent per annum,

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دوره 78  شماره 

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تاریخ انتشار 1943