Letter Signed from Joseph Lister to S. L. Booth, 2 October 1875
Item — Box: CLX-A-1591
Identifier: Coll-1848/20-0041
Scope and Contents
Clerk written Letter Signed by Joseph Lister, sent to S. L. Booth telling him that the "address to which you refer will be published in due time in the British Medical Journal. Meantime I beg you to accept a copy of a paper written two years ago, which has reference to the same subject. I may add that the methods of procedure have been since much simplified ... ", 2 sides 8vo., 9 Charlotte Square Edinburgh headed paper, 2 October 1875.
Dates
- 2 October 1875
Creator
- Lister, Sir Joseph, 1827-1912 (1st Baron Lister | British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery) (Author, Person)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Description
2 sides 8vo.
Conditions Governing Access
Open. Please contact the repository in advance.
Biographical / Historical
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.
Extent
1 letter
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Pruchased in June 2019. Accession no. SC-Acc-2020-0041.
Physical Description
2 sides 8vo.
Processing Information
Catalogued in August 2020 by Aline Brodin, using information from the seller.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
Contact:
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
heritagecollections@ed.ac.uk