HUMANE SERVICE

Gisborne Times, Volume LXV, Issue 10377, 7 April 1927, Page 5

HUMANE SERVICE

ANTISEPTIC SURGERY WORK

BARON LISTER—PIONEER

LONDON, April 5. The Lister Centenary is monopolising attention in medical and scientific societies in London, a delegation from all parts of tho world paying a tribute to the immense services the pioneer of antiseptic surgery had rendered to humanity. The Prime Minister, Mr Stanley Baldwin, in. a tribute to the British Medical Association, said Baron Lister was a master workman, truth loving. truth seeking, and truth living. All newspapers are publishing special editorial articles by leading scientists, and pictures.—A.N.Z.C.A.

("Baron Lister, whose centenary is referred to above, was the famous English surgeon whose researches, influenced by the work of Pasteur, led to the employment of antiseptics in all surgical operations. He was born at Upton, in Essex, and graduated at the University College, London, in 1852. After spending several years in the practice of surgery at Edinburgh, he was appointed to the Chair of Surgerv in Glasgow University in 18§0, to the chair of clinical surgery at Edinburgh in 1869. and tho chair of clinical surgery. King’s College, London, in 1877. In addition to many important papers in scientific journals, he published his work “On the Effects of the Anti-Septic Treatment, upon the Salubrity of a Surgical Hospital” (18701, and “A Contribution to tho Germ Theory of Putrefaction nnd other Fermentative Changes” (1875).