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Definition of Baron Lister
1. Noun. English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baron Lister
Literary usage of Baron Lister
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"From 1895 to 1000 he was President of the Royal Society. In 1883 he was created
a baronet, and in 1897 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lister of ..."
2. Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology by William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Louis Pasteur, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sir Charles Lyell, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, Frank Faulkner, David Constable Robb, Harold Clarence Ernst, Joseph Lister, Stephen Paget, Robert Willis (1910)
"He was made a baronet in 1883; retired from teaching in 1893; and was raised to
the peerage in 1897, with the title of Baron Lister. He died in 1912. ..."
3. Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology by Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Edward Jenner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Charles Lyell, Stephen Paget, Robert Willis, Frank Faulkner, David Constable Robb, Harold Clarence Ernst (1910)
"He was made a baronet in 1883; retired from teaching in 1893; and was raised to
the peerage in 1897, with the title of Baron Lister. Even before the work of ..."
4. A Time to Heal: The Diffusion of Listerism in Victorian Britain by Jerry L. Gaw (1999)
"A. Logan Turner edited Joseph, Baron Lister: Centenary Volume, 1827—1927 (Edinburgh:
Oliver and Boyd, 1927) for the British Medical Association; ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"... Rayleigh on January 14 to the memory of Lord Lister bears the following
inscription : In affectionate and respectful memory of Joseph Baron Lister, FRS, ..."
6. Surgery, Its Principles and Practice by William Williams Keen (1906)
"... was raised to the peerage, with the title Baron Lister—the first and only
representative of the medical profession to lie so honored in Great Britain. ..."
7. Contemporary France by Gabriel Hanotaux (1905)
"Microbiology, with Charles Robin,2 P. Bert, and 1 Sir Joseph Lister, now Baron
Lister, b. London 1827. See his splendid letter to Pasteur, dated February ..."
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