Lister / [Research Defence Society].

  • Research Defence Society (Great Britain)
Date:
[1920]
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Credit: Lister / [Research Defence Society]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Form D7. March, 1920. Telephone : MAYFAIR 1043- 11, Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London, W.l Research Defence Society. (Founded 1908.) President—THE RT. HON. LORD LAMINGTON, G-C.M.G., G.C.I-E. Chairman-THE RT- HON. VISCOUNT KNUTSFORD. Hon. Treasurer—SIR DAVID FERRIER, M.D., F-R-S. Hon. Sec.—STEPHEN PAGET F.R.C-S. Hon. Asst. Sec— CAPTAIN WALTER E. ELLIOT, M.C., M.P. Born 1827, LISTER. Died 1912. (Reprinted, by permission, from an article, by the Hon. Secretary, in the “ English Mechanic and World of Science.”) LISTER, in 1865, first ventured to treat the wound of a j compound fracture with crude undiluted carbolic acid. That was the beginning of “ modern surgery.” Pasteur and Lister—we have always to think, of them together,