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Excerpt from Two Lectures on Lister's Antiseptic Method of Treating Surgical Injuries: Delivered at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York Lister's method, properly followed out, prevents inammation and suppuration, and this is something entirely new. I think, gentlemen, that if these successes continue under Lister's method of treatment, that some of us will be obliged to restudy our surgical pathology. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.