JOSEPH, BARON LISTER: Centenary Volume 1827-1927

by Turner M.D., A.; ed

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Edinburgh:: Oliver & Boyd,, 1927. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; green bookcloth faded to brown on spine + covers; owner rubberstamp on title page & inside back cover; some light foxing; otherwise good.. With frontispiece portrait + 8 full-pg. b&w photos. Sir Joseph Lister (1827-1912), English surgeon, opened modern era of surgery by pioneering antiseptic surgery; introduced catgut ligature to tie arteries; insisted on aseptic operating rooms, instruments, & personnel; developed surgical operations for femur, wrist joint, urethra, bladder, & carcinoma of the breast; invented indispensable surgical instruments. ||| Sir Joseph's early Quaker life; his accomplishments reviewed by eminent contemporary surgeons. ||| Pasted on rear endpaper--a clipping, `Anecdote of Lord Lister,' from 1927 Medical Journal & Record. Also, an ink reference: `Eight Letters of Lister to Wm. Sharpey, British Journal of Surgery 20:145.'