Antiseptic surgery; the principles, modes of application, and results of the Lister dressing / Tr. from the 2d and completely rev. ed. with the special sanction of the author, and ed. by Frederic Henry Gerrish.

  • Lucas-Championnière, Just Marie Marcellin, 1843-1913.
Date:
1881
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    In 1875, when, in my hospital service, I myself provided the materials for the dressing and the necessary apparatus, and undertook to make the first rigorously precise appli- cation, in accordance with what I had learned in Scotland, it met with a discouraging reception from many of my col- leagues. But I had followed the first steps of the method since 1867; had seen it applied in Glasgow in 1868; had described it to the French surgeons in January, 1869 ; had kept it before them in every succeeding }-ear by showing its progress and by introducing into my practice, with great success, the employment of powerful antiseptics. Above all, in 1875, I made at Edinburgh, de visa, an exhaustive study of it. So nothing could discourage me or deter me from faithfully testing it. Soon some of my colleagues, struck by the remarkable cases which I described to them, and surprised by the grow- ing reputation of the method abroad, asked me to teach them the practice of it; and Professors Guyon and Verneuil were the first to be convinced by their own experience of its immense value. It was with difficulty that, even after a year of effort, of personal trouble, we prevailed upon the administration of the hospitals to furnish the materials for the dressing. To-day they can be had for the asking. This great step having been taken, there was a chance for the propagation of the Lister method; and I was able to introduce it into the services of my colleagues and friends, and those of which I had charge, where it reigns supreme to-day. In fact, for four years I have had a large personal experi-