286 PROFESSOR LISTERS PRACTICE 



The following is a list of the most important of 

 Professor Lister's recent communications : 



Case of Compound Fracture Treated Antiseptically. 

 Lancet, March 16, 1867, p. 328. 



Observations on Ligatures ,of Arteries on the Anti- 

 septic System. Lancet, April 3, 1869. Corrected 

 Feb. 1870. Churchill. 



Introductory Lecture. Edinburgh, Nov., 1869. 

 Edmonston and Douglas, Edin. 



On the Effects of the Antiseptic System of Treat- 

 ment upon the Salubrity of a Surgical Hospital, 1870. 

 Edmonston and Douglas. Edin. 



Remarks on a Case of Compound Dislocation of 

 the Ankle. Illustrafmg the Antiseptic System of 

 Treatment, 1870. Edmonston and Douglas. Edin. 



Although there is no doubt of the advantage 

 of the practice advocated by Mr. Lister, the theory 

 advanced by him to explain the results is defec- 

 tive, and has already been much criticised. There 

 is reason to fear that the unsatisfactory theory 

 has influenced some minds against the excellent 

 practice. It is, therefore, desirable to show that 

 the defects of the former in no way whatever 

 prejudice the facts which establish the value of 

 the latter. Professor Lister attributes certain patho- 

 logical phenomena to the operation of stimuli, and to 

 the influence of irritation, but he does not tell us in 

 what particular manner the so-called stimuli act, nor 

 does he describe the changes which he conceives 



