THE LIFE OF PASTEUB 



" My <!• If Sir — allow me to our acceptance of a pam- 



which I :. 1 by the Same post, containing an account 



some u tiona into the subject which you have done 



bo much to elucidate, the germ th< i ry of f< rmentatiTe changes. 



. ou may read with some in' 

 wh.it I have written on the organism which you were the first 

 be in your Mfanoin sur la fermentation appelie 

 lactique. 



J do Dot know whether the record* of British Surgery 

 • your eye. If so. you will have seen from time to 

 of the antiseptic . of tr it, which I 



have bees labouring for the last nine years to bring to per- 

 fect. 



' Allow me to take this opportunity to tender you my most 



cordial thinks for having, by your brilliant researches, de- 



1 to me the truth of the germ theory of putrefaction, 



and thus furnished me with the principle upon which alone 



c system can be carried out. Should you at any 



time visit Edinburgh, it would, I believe, give you sincere 



ion to see at our hospital how largely mankind is being 



d by your labours. 



' ] oe< d hardly add that it would afford me the highest 



• :on to 6how you how greatly surgery is indebted to 



you. 



rpvr the freedom with which a common love of science 

 ins] me, ai 



" Believe me, with profound respect. 



" Yours very sinoi rely, 



" JosErn Lister." 



In T,i-t« r's wards, the instrument^ s and o< 



: for dressings were t':rst of all purified in a strong 

 coin M* ii of carbolic acid. Th- rations were tal 



ads of the surgeon and of his assistant-. 1 taring the 



h operation, a vaporizer of carbolic solution 



ind the wound an antiseptic atmosphere; after it 



p, the wound was again washed with the carbolic 



ution. used for dressing: a sort 



similar to tarlatan and impn gnated with a mixture 



ifliu and carbolic, maintained an antiseptic atmo- 



:d the wound. Such was -in its main lines — 



List. r"s method. 



