IV. 



PASTEUR AND LISTER 



IN 1865, Lister was thirty-eight years old. From 

 Edinburgh, where he had been an assistant-surgeon 

 to the Royal Infirmary, and an extra-mural lecturer 

 on Surgery, he had gone, in 1860, to Glasgow, to 

 be a surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, and Professor 

 of Surgery in the University. By 1865, he had 

 done an immense amount of scientific work on the 

 subject of inflammation : he had contributed, to 

 the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 

 in 1858, a long paper On the Early Stages of In- 

 flammation: and, in 1863, he had given the 

 Croonian Lecture, On the Coagulation of the Blood. 

 He became a Fellow of the Royal Society at the 

 early age of thirty- two. 



It would be useless to put here a long account of 

 the misery and peril of compound fractures, wounds, 

 operation-cases, and maternity-cases, in the years 

 before " Listerism " came into general use. Those 

 of us who are old need not be reminded of it : and 



