Before King-Emperor George V, waiting at Buckingham Palace last week, went 100 erudite men to retell, rhetorically, the world’s obligations to Baron Joseph Lister, born just 100 years before, dead but ...

Operating areas of hospitals were a gory, infectious mess until Joseph Lister thought to take the fight to germs. Corbis/VCG via Getty Images The only place you’d expect to encounter the “unmistakable ...

Prologue : the age of agony -- Through the lens -- Houses of death -- The sutured gut -- The altar of science -- The Napoleon of surgery -- The frog's legs -- Cleanliness and cold water -- They're all ...

What was the most dangerous place in the vast territories of the British Empire in the 19th century? Was it the savage savannas of Zululand? Perhaps the frozen wastes of the Northwest Passage, or the ...

Imagine facing a surgery without anesthesia, in a smelly operating room that was not clean or sterile with a surgeon wearing a blood-stained apron. We all would run screaming out the door! Prior to ...

Autograph letter signed, handwritten in black ink on unlined paper with black edges. Accompanied by a 2-part beige cloth portfolio. Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM PC PRS FRS, known between 1883 ...

British science writer Fitzharris slices into medical history with this excellent biography of Joseph Lister, the 19th-century “hero of surgery.” Lister championed the destruction of microorganisms in ...

Joseph Lister was a British surgeon whose work in preventing infections revolutionised surgery. When Lister began his career as a surgeon, wound infections were a common occurrence that frequently ...