Joseph Lister and his importance in surgery

Abstract

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Joseph Lister. Who among us does not know this name? Who among us does not know about the great upheaval to which surgery owes Lister? Who of the workers of culture and science does not care for the name of this benefactor of mankind, who saved the latter, by creating his system of antisepsis, from an innumerable series of unnecessary deaths and sufferings? Like a hurricane, Lister's doctrine burst into surgery and split it by a deep chasm into two periods - the period of old, pre-Lister's surgery and the period of antiseptic surgery.

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