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Joseph Lister

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Issue 111

The man who used antiseptics to revolutionise surgery

Joseph Lister was born into a Quaker family on 5 April 1827. Having spent his childhood dissecting specimens and looking at tissue samples using his father’s microscope, the young Lister decided to become a surgeon. Despite his interest in comparative anatomy, he completed an arts degree at University College London (a secular alternative to Oxbridge). He eventually did go on to study medicine in 1848, graduating with several different honours and gold medals.

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