Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1911 — Father of Antiseptic Surgery. [ARTICLE]

Father of Antiseptic Surgery.

Lord Lister, who recently celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday, is the medical genius who discovered and introduced the antiseptic method of surgery, thereby making possible the almost incredible operations performed by doctors today. Before his discovery It Is estimated that nearly 50 per oent of surgical operations proved fatal, owing to septic poisoning. Lord Lister, like many other scientists, has a wide Interest in things, and his powers of observation are abnormal. Speaking of this on one occasion, he remarked on the 'great advantage of drawing as a training for observation. “The man who sketches,” he said, "looks and. looks again at an object, and thus the alltmportant habit of correct observation is acquired."