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If the severest forms of contused and lacerated wounds heal thus kindly under the antiseptic treatment, it is obvious that its application to simple incised wounds must be merely a matter of detail. ... Authors > Nonfiction > Harvard Classics > Joseph Lister...
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Joseph Lister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joseph Lister may refer to: •Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (1827 – 1912), English surgeon •Joseph Lister (VC) (1886 – 1963), sergeant in the British Army and recipient of the Victoria Cross •Joseph...
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Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Joseph Lister in later years ... Joseph Lister was born on the 5th April, 1827 at Upton, Essex, England. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from University College, London and then continued as a medical student in 1848. He was influenced by the physiologist William Sharpney and obtained his medical degree in 1852.
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Prior to the work of Joseph Lister, the hospital was a place to go to die, not to be cured. If an individual was able to survive the pain and torture of surgery without anesthesia, a postoperative infection would most certainly be their ultimate demise.
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Other members of Lister's family were eminent in natural science. In his boyhood Joseph Lister was educated at Quaker schools; first at Hitchin in Hertfordshire, and afterwards at Tottenham, near London.
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