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Joseph Lister: His Contributions to Early Experimental Physiology (2013)

Howard, Edward R. (Author)

Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 67, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 191-198

DOI: 10.1098/rsnr.2013.0029

Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Part of a special issue,“Learning from Lister”
Language: English

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Physiology Experimental biology Histology Biographies 19th century England Lister, Joseph, Baron

Joseph Lister (1827--1912) acquired a lifelong interest in histology and experimental physiology while a student at University College London between 1848 and 1852. His first two publications in 1853 were histological studies of the contractile tissue of the iris and the skin. Studies of inflammation in 1855 progressed to experiments on the nervous control of arteries, using techniques of peripheral nerve division, spinal cord section and needle stimulation of the brain. This interest in nervous mechanisms led to innovative experiments on gut motility and the autonomic nervous system, from which he inferred that sympathetic nerve control was mediated via intrinsic neuronal plexuses in the gut wall, a mode of action confirmed 100 years later, in 1964--65. It is not generally known that Lister was elected FRS for this early experimental work and that his early commitment to experimental science and microscopy was the background to his later work on the development of surgical antisepsis.

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Article Worboys, Michael (2013) Joseph Lister and the Performance of Antiseptic Surgery. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 199-209). unapi

Article Carpenter, Mary Wilson (2013) Lister's Relationship with Patients: “A Successful Case”. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 231-244). unapi

Article Dupree, Marguerite Wright (2013) From Mourning to Scientific Legacy: Commemorating Lister in London and Scotland. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 261-280). unapi

Article Crowther, M. Anne (2013) Lister at Home and Abroad: A Continuing Legacy. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 281-294). unapi

Article Richardson, Ruth (2013) Inflammation, Suppuration, Putrefaction, Fermentation: Joseph Lister's Microbiology. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 211-229). unapi

Article Schlich, Thomas (2013) Farmer to Industrialist: Lister's Antisepsis and the Making of Modern Surgery in Germany. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (pp. 245-260). unapi

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