Show LORD LORD LISTER I Dr G. G l F. F Wrench has written the life and work of Dr Lord Lister It is being reviewed in the eastern eastern journals Dr Wrench tells how Lord Lister accepted the truth of the great Pasteur P that germs were responsible for putrefactive putrefactive putre putre- processes in wounds of eith either r accidental or surgical al production and so went to work to neutralize their effects by antiseptics and persevered persevered per per- severed until against fierce opposition his work was generally accepted and he had gained the title of Father of oft Antiseptic Surgery The Theauthor Theauthor auth author r declares that t l his is work m made de an au epoch in ill modern model n surgery The work will interest learned physicians more than lay members bu but through it the ordinary man will discern a great light such as appears only at nt long intervals through the unwinding of the centuries a signal light that the promise of mans man's dominion over overall overall all II the earth including the banishing of disease is not forgotten His work gave to the thc practice e c of medicine a anew anew anew new dignity and the subsequent discoveries and achievements of other giants in the profession justify the hope that it will not be so very long now until all diseases will be returned to Pandora's Pandora's Pandora's Pan Pan- doras dora's nefarious box and safely locked inside One sign of this was when the yellow fever was disarmed another when the Ch Chagres gres fever was made to lose its terrors another when that report came up from San Antonio Tex a few we weeks ks ago that United States soldiers had been in garrison there for months and there had been no case ase of typhoid fever among them One cause of disease after another has been searched out and the disease throttled and the world is given new hopes of its utter banishment in th the near future |