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Hygiene
Since the antiseptic treatment has been brought into full operation, and wounds and abscesses no longer poison the atmosphere with putrid exhalations, my wards…have completely changed their character; so that during the last nine months not a single instance of pyaemia, hospital gangrene or erysipelas has occurred in them.
Joseph Lister  (1827 - 1912)
British surgeon
British Medical Journal, 1867.
 
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