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...meeting was opened at Toronto University by Major-General Sir David Bruce, President of the Association. During the War he served in the British Army. At present he is Chairman of the Governing Body of Lister Institute* of Preventive Medicine. He argued that medicine must change its tactics, take the offensive against disease, instead of waiting for 'disease to attack. He was enthusiastic about the work of the Rockefeller Foundation in attacking the sources of the hookworm disease, yellow fever and malaria. He told how sleeping sickness had been eliminated in Uganda by control of the tsetse...
...Named, like Listerine, after the famous surgeon, Sir Joseph Lister, originator of the Listerian treatment for the septic infection of wounds...
...Prof. Lister, of Glasgow Univ.−Septic surgery...
...wounded man, of his sympathetic heart and skill. The fact is that in these days of preventive medicine, of more scientific diagnosis, and of the treatment of tens of thousands of patients in our hospitals, the leaders among the Good Samaritans are our men of science, such as Pasteur, Lister and Osler...
...Lister Hill...