Lister, Joseph

Joseph (1827-), an eminent English surgeon. He was born at Upton and was educated at London University. He was made a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He held various lectureships and chairs in surgery at Glasgow, Edinburgh, and King's college, London. He was made a baronet in 1883 and a peer in 1897. Sir Joseph Lister is one of the great names in surgical science. He took a leading part in the inauguration of the new science of antiseptic surgery. He taught that in surgery pus is neither laudable, necessary, nor permissible. See Surgery