Same guy Listerine is named after
July 27– “On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery” by Joseph Lister (1867)
Summary: If you put antiseptic on wounds, they don't get infected.
Commentary: I've been getting a lot of mileage out of Fordham's online stuff lately. Good for things that are small, have weird formatting, etc. that can be hard to find or awkward on Gutenberg. I know I said something about same paragraph footnotes recently, and this one has them. Maybe that's all the Fordham stuff, or just a coincidence.
The usual "wow, this is neat"/"wow, more people should know this stuff" on medical/scientific primary source documents applied here. My main comment on this specific piece that all of these treatments (which consist largely of soaking a rag in antiseptic, swabbing out wounds, and covering it until it scabs) sound incredibly painful.
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