"A Time to Heal": The Diffusion of Listerism in Victorian BritainAmerican Philosophical Society, 1999 - 173 pagina's In the 19th century, Joseph Lister related the germ theory of fermentation to the cause of putrefaction in wounds. Listerism was adopted because its success was greater and more consistent than other methods of healing the sick. The circumstances which made this possible were a theory for explaining the scientific evidence, and a courageous person like Joseph Lister who was capable of bringing about the necessary changes. This study records how with much pain and trial and error the prevention of nosocomial infections was achieved in the 19th century. Today, we have learned we must implement again Lister's prevention techniques and other precautions in our hospitals to prevent the spread of nosocomial infections. Illus. |
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"A Time to Heal": The Diffusion of Listerism in Victorian Britain Jerry L. Gaw Fragmentweergave - 1999 |
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abscesses amputations antisepsis antiseptic method antiseptic principle Antiseptic Surgery antiseptic system antiseptic technique Antiseptic Treatment April aseptic bacteria Bastian Bennett blood British Medical Journal Budd Burdon-Sanderson carbolic acid catgut caused Cheyne cholera College of Surgeons compound fractures contagionists death December DIFFUSION OF LISTERISM drainage Edinburgh Medical Journal Edinburgh Royal Infirmary epidemic experiments fermentation fever germ theory Glasgow Royal Infirmary Godlee Guy's Hospital healing History of Medicine Ibid infection James G January John Joseph Lister King's College Hospital Lancet Lancet 14 Lancet 29 Lawson Tait ligatures Lister's method Lister's practice Lister's system Lister's technique Lord Lister medical profession microorganisms November Nunneley October Ogston operations organisms ovariotomy Paget Pasteur Pathological Society patients physician practitioners Professor Lister putrefaction Robert Koch Royal College scientific septic Simpson spontaneous spray success suppuration surgical Syme Theory of Disease tion tissues Treatment of Wounds Tyndall Victorian Wakley wards Wellcome Institute Western Manuscripts William
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Pagina 94 - Allow me to take this opportunity to tender you my most cordial thanks for having, by your brilliant researches, demonstrated to me the truth of the germ theory of putrefaction, and thus furnished me with the principle upon which alone the antiseptic system can be carried out.
Pagina 30 - In the course of an extended investigation into the nature of inflammation, and the healthy and morbid conditions of the blood in relation to it, I arrived several years ago at the conclusion that the essential cause of suppuration in wounds is decomposition, brought about by the influence of the atmosphere upon blood or serum retained within them, and, in the case of contused wounds, upon portions of tissue destroyed by the violence of the injury.
Pagina 44 - It appears, then, that by applying a ligature of animal tissue antiseptically upon an artery, whether tightly or gently, we virtually surround it with a ring of living tissue, and strengthen the vessel where we obstruct it.
Pagina 59 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?
Pagina 51 - ... the improved health and satisfactory condition of the hospital, which has been as marked in the medical as in the surgical department, is mainly attributable to the better ventilation, the improved dietary, and the excellent nursing, to which the directors have given so much attention of late years.
Pagina 19 - Our other plagues were home-bred, and part of ourselves, as it were; we had a habit of looking on them with a fatal indifference, indeed, inasmuch as it led us to believe that they could be effectually subdued. But the cholera was something outlandish, unknown, monstruous [sic]; its tremendous ravages, so long foreseen and feared, so little to be explained, its insidious march over whole continents, its apparent defiance of all the known and conventional precautions against the spread of epidemic...
Pagina 84 - ... altogether similar when the matter containing Bacilli, by coming into contact with a wounded surface, gives rise to splenic fever and the appearance of such organisms all through the body. The old notion about the excessive self-multiplication of the original contagium is probably altogether erroneous. Thus all the distinctive positions of those who advocate a belief in the so-called ' germ theory of disease,' or rely upon the exclusive doctrine of a 'contagium vivum,' seem to be absolutely broken...
Pagina 88 - Cambridge ten years hence, some one may be able to record the discovery of the appropriate ' vaccine ' for measles, scarlet fever,* and other acute specific diseases of the human subject. But even should nothing more be effected than what seems to be already on the point of attainment— the means of securing poultry from death by fowl-cholera, and cattle from the terribly destructive splenic fever — it must be admitted that we have an instance of a most valuable result from the much-reviled
Pagina 62 - I believe that cases of recovery frequently occur under other methods, or no methods, and that at least as much depends upon the age and reparative power of the patient, the amount of blood poison formed or absorbed, and the general conditions of the atmosphere as upon any system of treatment whatever. " I attach much importance, as I have said, to free drainage in dressing wounds, and when...
Pagina 111 - Lancet, amongst others, made itself the mouthpiece of the " howl of derision," a term by which one of Lister's devoted followers described this outbreak of the feeling of the London surgical world towards the Edinburgh professor. Mr. Lister was "like a man who in the excitement of enthusiasm raves at the false creations of his heat-oppressed brain " ; "he seems to have lost himself in infatuation...
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