Lister, Sir Joseph, 1827-1912 (1st Baron Lister | British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery)
Biographical Note:
Sir Joseph Lister Bt. pioneered the applications of Louis Pasteur's advances in microbiology to sterile surgery, championing the use of carbolic acid as a steriliser of medical instruments and wounds. Joseph Lister spent eight years as the Regius Professorship of Surgery at Glasgow University. It was during this period (1865), when he was also a surgeon at the Royal Infirmary Glasgow, that he carried out his pioneering work in the field of antiseptics. He was President of the Royal Society (1895-1900), and served as Surgeon Extraordinary and Sergeant Surgeon to Queen Victoria. His wife, Agnes Lister (nee Syme) was a lifelong collaborator and assistant, and it was with her death that he retired from his research.
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Class card admitting Frederic Neild to Joseph Lister's lectures on Clinical Surgery, University of Edinburgh, 1871, and certificate signed by Lister stating that Neild attended his lectures from 4 May to 24 July 1871., 1871
This file consists of a class card admitting Mr Frederic Neild to Lectures on Clinical Surgery, signed "J. Lister", with a printed two-page certificate dated 25 July 1871 and signed "Joseph Lister" as Professor of Clinical Surgery, certifying that Mr Neild has attended all his lectures from May to July that year.