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Doctors & Menaces. Spread of infection within hospitals appeared to be under control a generation ago, thanks to universal use of Listerian antiseptic and aseptic techniques. In those days, 90% or more of potentially fatal infections were picked up on the outside, and the hospital was the place to go to be cured. Today, even in the best hospitals, more than half of all fatal infections are acquired inside the hospital, where they attack patients already weakened by other diseases or by operations...
...Named, like Listerine, after the famous surgeon, Sir Joseph Lister, originator of the Listerian treatment for the septic infection of wounds...
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