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DR. CHARLES SINGER, general editor of “The Classics of Medicine” series, has made a good beginning. We are to have, in due time, Ambroise Pare, Laennec, Auenbrugger, Hippocrates, Galen. Meanwhile, we have Sir Rickman Godlee's admirable selection of six of Lister's papers, with a short introductory memoir-too short, indeed, for those of us who are not familiar with Godlee's Life of Lister. Plainly, the difficulty was to decide, in all the wealth of Lister's published writings, what to leave out. It may be that the interest of the paper on anaesthetics (1861) is impaired by the progress of sixty years. But the other five papers, which cover the long period from 1857 to 1890, are of everlasting value. They give us, in Lister's own words, the course and the development of Lister's own work. For the present generation of young physicians and surgeons, they are a sure guide to the principles on which antiseptic and aseptic surgery was founded and built.
Six Papers by Lord Lister, with a Short Biography and Explanatory Notes.
By Sir Rickman J. Godlee. (Medical Classics Series.) Pp. vii + 194 + iv plates. (London: John Bale, Sons, and Danielsson, Ltd., 1921.) 10s. net.
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Six Papers by Lord Lister, with a Short Biography and Explanatory Notes . Nature 107, 232 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107232a0
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