eminent British workers in the same fascinating science. The names of Owen and Lyell will remain ever famous in geology. In medicine, the least progressive of all sciences, we owe to the Victorian Age Sir Joseph Lister's antiseptic treatment, and the extraordinary development of bacteriology. In surgery, enormous advances have been made. It is not the least glory of the last sixty years that they include the first use of both ether and chloroform as ancesthetios.
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