If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then certainly I am fitted to he a surgeon; for thou can'st hardly conceive what a high degree of enjoyment I am from day to… — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
I trust I may be enabled in the treatment of patients always to act with a single eye to their good. — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will find it to be attended with peculiar privileges, second to none in intense interest and pure pleasures. It is our proud office to tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit, and… — Joseph Lister Copy Share
“In the course of an extended investigation into the nature of inflammation, and the healthy and morbid conditions of the blood in relation to it, I arrived several years ago at the conclusion that the essential cause of suppuration in wounds is decomposition brought about by the influence of the atmosphere upon blood or serum retained within them, and, in… — Joseph Lister Copy Share
If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then certainly I am fitted to he a surgeon;… — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or… — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
If a man is not to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves to him, what is he to do, or what is… — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
The frequency of disastrous consequences in compound fracture, contrasted with the complete immunity from danger to life or limb in simple fracture, is one… — Joseph Lister Copy Share Image
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