Show SIR JOSEPH LISTER I 1 numan itys great debt to him A BT alution in surgery sorcery sir joseph lister acknowledges acknowledge his bla supreme indebtedness to pasteur tor for the discovery that putrefy putrefaction action wu was a fermentation due to microbes mic robes whilla bould not arise de novo from tho the decomposable com substance says scribners Scrib nera es with this as a basis the great surgeon persisted in the face of much opposition I 1 in perfecting a simple antiseptic dressing that is one cne which would destroy any microbes mic robes that could fall all on the wound and purify the surgeons hands bands wd and instruments his success accomplished a veritable revolution in surgery to select a single instance the general hospital at munich had come to such a state of that fully 80 per cent of all wounds were infected by the poisonous gangrene A surgeon was sent to england to learn the new Uster ism and after his return not a single case of hospital gangrene appeared in the munich krau kras benhaus ken haus many anted allied dangers were totally destroyed by this gospel of cleanliness and in addition addi the suffering or of patients during necessary operations was vastly relieved owing to the tha absente absen e of inflammation the most conservative savants savanis estimate that the lister antiseptic has increased the field of remedial surgery anu and that the mortality of hazardous operations has been reduced from probably 60 50 per cent to something like 1 per cent with antiseptic treatment the thuu skuli even the viscera can be safely entered tor for operation and it is literally true that modern surgery v can without dan gor remove any part of the human organism which Is not itself essential tn luk I 1 1 |