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THE eightieth anniversary of the birthday of Lord LAster occurred on Friday last, April 5. Many scientific men have had the good fortune to discover the causation of phenomena of immediate practical importance, but to few have been vouchsafed the privilege of seeing the results of their discoveries become in a few years of such enormous benefit to their fellow men as those of Joseph Lister. No man alive has by a single discovery conferred upon the whole of mankind a greater boon than did the surgeon who discovered the causation of the direful but not unusual sequelae of a surgical operation, viz. suppuration, septicmia, secondary hmorrhage, erysipelas, and hospital gangrene, and who showed that by preventing the access of bacteria to wounds all these diseases could be avoided.
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The Commemoration of Lord Lister's Eightieth Birthday . Nature 75, 564–565 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/075564a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/075564a0