Joseph Lister
Edinburgh 1869–1877

When Lister attended Edinburgh, he had two primary objectives. The first was to perfect the design of his dressings, the second was to improve the reliability of antiseptics by applying the technique to an ever wider class of operations. The cases he selected for this were the repair of bone deformities along with the rewiring of fractures where the union was malformed while healing.

In 1870, Lister published "On the Effects of the Antiseptic System of Treatment upon the Salubrity of a Surgical Hospital".

Lister's meticulous nature became ever more apparent when he moved to work in Edinburgh and this is reflected in his casebooks for wards 4 and 5 at the infirmary.

On 14 January 1871, Lister published his first details of Gauze and Spray in the British Medical Journal.

In 1872 he was elected a member of the Aesculapian Club.
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