Lister and His Achievement. Being the First Lister Memorial Lecture Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on May 14, 1925. INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM WATSON CHEYNE

Published by London, etc.: Longmans, Green, 1925.

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Frontispiece, 3 leaves, 136 pp. Original cloth. Foxed. Very Good. This copy does NOT have any library markings. First Edition. INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM WATSON CHEYNE: "To Capt W. Royston Steadman/ with kind regards from/ the author/ March 1927" (see photo). "Cheyne became the house surgeon to Joseph Lister, the British founder of antiseptic medicine, in 1876. Bacteriology had been much researched in France and Germany in the 1870s and 80s, but little work was done in the field in Britain. Lister was one of the few pioneers of its study in Britain. In 1877, the two took positions at King's College Hospital, where Cheyne served as an assistant surgeon, and later as surgeon from 1880 to 1917 and also as a professor of surgery from 1891 to 1917. He was a devoted follower of Lister and his antiseptic surgical methods. Cheyne was greatly inspired by the work of German bacteriologist Robert Koch, and translated his work Untersuchungen über die Aetiologie der Wundinfenktionskrankheiten (1878) for the New Sydenham Society in 1880, which greatly enhanced the acceptance of bacteriology in Britain. He had a work published in 1882, Antiseptic Surgery: Its Principles, Practice, History and Results, and later in 1925 a book, Lister and His Achievement [offered here]" (Wikipedia).

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Title
Lister and His Achievement. Being the First Lister Memorial Lecture Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on May 14, 1925. INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM WATSON CHEYNE
Author
CHEYNE, Sir William Watson [LISTER, Joseph]
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London, etc.: Longmans, Green, 1925.
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Very Good
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