Photo: Rischgitz Collection. 



SIR JAMES YOUNG SIMPSON (l8l 1-1870) 



who introduced in 1847 the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic. He 

 was Professor of Midwifery in the University of Edinburgh and was 

 indefatigable both in research and in practice. 



Photo: Risckgilz Collection. 



LORD LISTER 



Joseph Lister (1827-1912). famous as the introducer of antiseptic 

 methods into surgery. Following Pasteur, who showed that wounds 

 went wrong with gangrene and the like because microbes or germs 

 got in. Lister used a dressing, such as carbolic acid, which killed the 

 microbes. Lister was Professor of Surgery in Glasgow. Edinburgh, 

 and King's College, London. 



