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Lister

noun

English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912). Synonyms: Baron Lister, Joseph Lister.

Assessor who makes out the tax lists.

Moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow. Synonyms: lister plough, lister plow, middle buster, middlebreaker.

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... of the instruments and the other of the puffing Billy. It's Lister's antiseptic spray, you know, and Archer's one of the carbolic-acid men. Hayes is the leader of the cleanliness-and-cold-water school, and they all hate ...

— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle

... our Universities, new conceptions are prevailing, Aristotle is winning the day. A fresh kind of thinker has arisen, whose chief idea of "virtue" is to investigate patiently the facts of life; men of the type of Lister, any one of whom have done more to regenerate mankind, and to increase the sum of human happiness, than a wilderness of the amiably-hazy old doctrinaires who professed the same object. I call to mind those physicians engaged ...

— Old Calabria • Norman Douglas

... skeptic by the name of Lister (who is still living) took it into his head that perhaps the fathers of surgery and their generations of imitators might have been wrong. He tried the experiment, shut germs out of his wounds, and behold, antiseptic ...

— Preventable Diseases • Woods Hutchinson

... announcement of Lord Lister's antiseptic surgical dressing which rendered the invasion of the peritoneal cavity comparatively safe, came the laparotomy or celiotomy mania. When it was discovered that opening the abdomen was really a minor ...

— Appendicitis: The Etiology, Hygenic and Dietetic Treatment • John H. Tilden, M.D.

... prevent the conglutination and consolidation of the wound" was more than half a millennium ahead of his time. The italics in the word modern are mine, but might well have been used by some early advocate of antisepsis or even by Lord Lister himself. Just six centuries almost to the year would separate the two declarations, yet they would be just as true at one time as at another. When we learn that Theodoric was proud of the beautiful cicatrices which he ...

— Old-Time Makers of Medicine • James J. Walsh

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