That very large number of peopl: who at one time or other have been lurider the surgeon's knife, will, now they are reminded, perhaps, offer silent tribute to Lord Lister, the famous surgeon who by his research into the matter of antiseptics robbed operations of much of their teri For. this man whose name will ever loom largely in medical science died twenty-three years ag3 to-morrow. The intracuction anaesthesia in the early part of the 19th century had Jone much to remove horror of the knife, but not everything, and how rest that terror was, may best be described by the following quotation from a_deseription of Lord Lister's career:—
"Yet unhappily, this new entrant cchisement seemed to be but an ironical liberty of feature, who with the other hand took away: what she had given. Direct healing of surgical wounds, fa from being the rule' was a piece of Ihele too rare to enter into. he al=
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