Word: listerism
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...doctors of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary were having more than their share of trouble. Young Joseph Lister, disciple of France's Louis Pasteur, was not only filling their ears with chatter about invisible somethings called "germs," he was also filling their stately hospital with the horrid stench of carbolic acid-a so-called "antiseptic," used hitherto for cleansing the Glasgow sewers...
...fall of 1874, a young man named William Ernest Henley, son of a Gloucester bookseller, appeared before Lister and placed his life in the experimenter's hands. At 25, Henley was dying of tuberculosis. The disease had settled in his lower legs, which were short and withered, although his torso and thighs were those of a giant. One foot had already been amputated; London surgeons wanted to amputate the other...
...chairmen respectively of the Military Affairs Committee and the Select Committee on Post-War Military Policy, announced that they would begin studying the problem before the snow flies. In the Senate. Elbert D. Thomas' Military Affairs Committee already had before it a bill, sponsored by Alabama's Lister Hill, which provided the mechanics for merger. It calls...
Died. Bertrand Edward Dawson, First Viscount Dawson of Penn, 80, physician to Britain's Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII, George VI; of pneumonia; in London. First British medical peer since Lister, he shocked the House of Lords with his outspoken views on birth control ("you should not have self-control when you are making love"), prohibition ("alcohol aids the digestion, brightens the outlook"), divorce ("when a marriage's main purpose is frustrated it ceases to have spiritual meaning"). He penned the famed sentence broadcast when George V lay a-dying in 1936: "The King's life...
...Dealing Senators Claude Pepper and Lister Hill promptly rose to reply. Their potshots had little effect. But meanwhile Senator Taft got involved in a terrible spat with Columnist Lippmann who is often pro-administration...