A GREAT SURGEON
LISTER CENTENARY PIONEER OF ANTISEPTIC SURGERY INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION IN LONDON (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) Rugby, April 5. The centenary is being celebrated of the birthday of Lord Lister, the pioneer of antiseptic treatment in surgery. Delegates from the leading foreign countries and dominions, and from the British Universities and learned societies, were received by the King at Buckingham Palace at a reception given by the Royal Society of Medicine. Sir St. Clair Thomson, paying tribute to Lord Lister’s work, said that only fifty years ago the results of surgical operations were hardly better than in the Dark Ages, and yet Lord Lister lived to see his work achieving result in the saving of more lives than all the military heroes of all the ages had destroyed. The history of surgery would always be divided into the times before and after Lord Lister. This morning the Prime Minister received the delegates and members of the Lister family. To-morrow there will be a memorial service at Westminster Abbey.—British Official Wireless.
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Southland Times, Issue 20148, 7 April 1927, Page 8
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