LISTER, Joseph, 1st Baron Lister (1827 – 1912)

1858

#2298

On the early stages of inflammation.

This paper reports the results of one of Lister’s most valuable researches; his conclusions still hold today.

1863

#871

On the coagulation of the blood.

In his Croonian Lecture Lister exploded the theory that blood coagulation is due to ammonia and showed that, in the blood vessels, it depends upon their injury. He further showed that by carrying out the strictest pre…

1865

#4469

On excision of the wrist for caries.

1867

#4423.1

On a new method of treating compound fracture, abscess, etc., with observations on the conditions of suppuration.

Lister’s work on the antiseptic principle in surgery. He believed that bacteria could enter wounds and cause suppuration and putrefaction and that it was necessary to kill the bacteria already in wounds and to apply d…

1867

#5635

On the antiseptic principle in the practice of surgery.

Having realized the significance of Pasteur’s work on fermentation, Lister evolved the idea of the antiseptic prevention of wound infection. This and the preceding entry represent two of the most epoch-making contribu…

1869

#2964

Observations on ligature of arteries on the antiseptic system.

Lister evolved a carbolized catgut ligature, better than any previously produced. He was able to cut short the ends of his ligature, closing the wound tightly and eliminating the necessity for bringing the ends of lig…

1870

#2170

A method of antiseptic treatment applicable to wounded soldiers in the present war.

In 1870, for the first time on the battlefield, French and German army surgeons applied antiseptic methods in the management of wounds. Lister published the above short paper describing the simplest method he could de…

1870

#1619

On the effects of the antiseptic system of treatment upon the salubrity of a surgical hospital.

1873

#2484

A further contribution to the natural history of bacteria and the germ theory of fermentative changes.

Isolation of Bacterium lactis, the specific micro-organism responsible for the lactic acid fermentation of milk.

1877 –1878

#2489

On the lactic fermentation and its bearings on pathology.

Lister was the first to obtain a pure culture of a bacterium (Bact. lactis). Lister first presented the results of this research in an address to the Royal Society on December 18, 1877. Because of its historic signifi…

1881

#5616

An address on the catgut ligature

1909

#85

The collected papers of Joseph, Baron Lister. 2 vols.

Lister, a pupil of Sharpey, became Professor of Surgery successively at Glasgow, Edinburgh and King’s College, London. He was the first medical man in Britain to be raised to the peerage. The founder of the antiseptic…

1965

#14338

A list of the original writings of Joseph Lord Lister, O.M.

Published as a 20-page pamphlet.