The Pioneering Surgeons Who Cleaned up Filthy Hospitals | BBC

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Written By Irina T.

“Lister is often referred to as the father of modern surgery, because he laid the foundations for future surgical and operative care – to think that such a step change in surgery occurred in the hospital where I work is phenomenal.”

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Apparatus used by Joseph Lister, laid out on trestle tables in the Wellcome Building. Photograph, c.1955.

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