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LISTER, Joseph (1827-1912). Observations on Ligature of Arteries on the Antiseptic System. Offprint from the Lancet (April 3, 1869). Edinburgh [and] London, 1869. 16 pages, 2 plates containing 3 line-block illustrations. Leaves -8 (pp. 13-16) are cancels, with the original type-setting of the first 25 lines of p. 13 pasted down over the cancel page, correction label pasted to upper wrapper (cropped): "Corrected February 1870. See Page 13". (Dampstaining, uniform discoloration, marginal chip to last leaf). Stab-stitched (lacking lower wrapper, upper wrapper corners chipped); folding cloth case. PRESENTATION COPY, probably to [Howard Atwood?] Kelly (inscribed "From the Author" on upper wrapper [inscription cropped]: see following item). Second offprint issue. The corrected text relates to the preparation of catgut for surgical purposes. Catgut, a dead organic substance, was introduced by Lister in the late 1860s as a replacement of silk in surgical ligatures, after he had discovered that it is absorbed by the living body. Lister continued to make improvements in his catgut preparations until the end of his life. Norman 1369. -- Remarks on a case of Compound Dislocation of the Ankle with other Injuries; illustrating the Antiseptic System of Treatment. [Offprint from the Lancet (1870), vol. 1.] Edinburgh, 1870. (Tears along spine, lower wrapper soiled); folding cloth case. PRESENTATION COPY to [Howard Atwood?] Kelly, with autograph letter signed from the author to "Professor Kelly", [London,] 26 January 1907, 2 pp., 8o, integral blank leaf, on his letterhead mourning stationery. In his letter Lister apologizes for his long delay in complying with Kelly's request for offprints, due to failing health, and states that "My serious papers and addresses have none of them been published in separate form, but are scattered through books and periodicals. Some however I had struck off for private distribution; and of these I send you such as may be of most interest to you." He adds that "the method of preparing catgut described in the second of the two articles on that subject which are enclosed" was subsequently revised. Osler 1676 xxvii; Norman 1370. -- On the Effects of the Antiseptic System of Treatment upon the Salubrity of a Surgical Hospital. [Offprint from the Lancet, 1870. Edinburgh, 1870.] Stapled. PRESENTATION COPY, probably to [H. A.?] Kelly (inscribed "From the Author" on upper wrapper). In this paper Lister "contended that the prevailing deplorable conditions at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, aggravated on the ground floor by adjacent pit burials of victims of the 1849 cholera epidemic, should be contrasted with the healthy conditions brought about in his men's accident ward on that floor by antiseptic treatment"(DSB). Osler 1676 xxvi; Norman 1371. -- A further contribution to the Natural History of Bacteria and the Germ Theory of Fermentative Changes. Offprint from the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, new series 13 (1873). London, 1873. 3 tinted lithographic plates. Disbound (upper wrapper detached). PRESENTATION COPY, possibly to [H. A.?] Kelly (inscribed "From the Author" on upper wrapper). Lister's second paper on bacteriology, in which he announced his isolation of bacterium lactis, the micro-organism responsible for the lactic fermentation of milk. Garrison-Morton 2484; Osler 1676 xii; Norman 1372. -- An Address on the effect of the Antiseptic Treatment upon the general Salubrity of Surgical Hospitals. Offprint from the British Medical Journal, December 25th, 1875. [London, 1875]. Disbound. (Minor marginal dampstaining.) Osler 1676 xxix; Norman 1373. -- On the Catgut Ligature. An address delivered before the Clinical Society of London, January 28th. Offprint from the Transactions of the Clinical Society of London 14 (1881). London, 1881. One wood-engraving in text. Disbound. An article on improvements in sterile catgut. Garrison-Morton 5616; Osler 1676 xv; Norman 1374. Together 6 pamphlets, 8o, caption titles, all but the fifth in original printed wrappers; all FIRST EDITIONS, offprint issues. Lister, the first medical practitioner to be elevated to the peerage, wrote no books, all of his published wrtiings being in the form of journal articles and a few separate papers. The Norman collection of Lister's papers exceeds in importance if not in quantity that of Sir William Osler, who lacked Lister's most important articles. (6)

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LISTER, Joseph (1827-1912). Observations on Ligature of Arteries on the Antiseptic System. Offprint from the Lancet (April 3, 1869). Edinburgh [and] London, 1869. 16 pages, 2 plates containing 3 line-block illustrations. Leaves -8 (pp. 13-16) are cancels, with the original type-setting of the first 25 lines of p. 13 pasted down over the cancel page, correction label pasted to upper wrapper (cropped): "Corrected February 1870. See Page 13". (Dampstaining, uniform discoloration, marginal chip to last leaf). Stab-stitched (lacking lower wrapper, upper wrapper corners chipped); folding cloth case. PRESENTATION COPY, probably to [Howard Atwood?] Kelly (inscribed "From the Author" on upper wrapper [inscription cropped]: see following item). Second offprint issue. The corrected text relates to the preparation of catgut for surgical purposes. Catgut, a dead organic substance, was introduced by Lister in the late 1860s as a replacement of silk in surgical ligatures, after he had discovered that it is absorbed by the living body. Lister continued to make improvements in his catgut preparations until the end of his life. Norman 1369. -- Remarks on a case of Compound Dislocation of the Ankle with other Injuries; illustrating the Antiseptic System of Treatment. [Offprint from the Lancet (1870), vol. 1.] Edinburgh, 1870. (Tears along spine, lower wrapper soiled); folding cloth case. PRESENTATION COPY to [Howard Atwood?] Kelly, with autograph letter signed from the author to "Professor Kelly", [London,] 26 January 1907, 2 pp., 8o, integral blank leaf, on his letterhead mourning stationery. In his letter Lister apologizes for his long delay in complying with Kelly's request for offprints, due to failing health, and states that "My serious papers and addresses have none of them been published in separate form, but are scattered through books and periodicals. Some however I had struck off for private distribution; and of these I send you such as may be of most interest to you." He adds that "the method of preparing catgut described in the second of the two articles on that subject which are enclosed" was subsequently revised. Osler 1676 xxvii; Norman 1370. -- On the Effects of the Antiseptic System of Treatment upon the Salubrity of a Surgical Hospital. [Offprint from the Lancet, 1870. Edinburgh, 1870.] Stapled. PRESENTATION COPY, probably to [H. A.?] Kelly (inscribed "From the Author" on upper wrapper). In this paper Lister "contended that the prevailing deplorable conditions at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, aggravated on the ground floor by adjacent pit burials of victims of the 1849 cholera epidemic, should be contrasted with the healthy conditions brought about in his men's accident ward on that floor by antiseptic treatment"(DSB). Osler 1676 xxvi; Norman 1371. -- A further contribution to the Natural History of Bacteria and the Germ Theory of Fermentative Changes. Offprint from the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, new series 13 (1873). London, 1873. 3 tinted lithographic plates. Disbound (upper wrapper detached). PRESENTATION COPY, possibly to [H. A.?] Kelly (inscribed "From the Author" on upper wrapper). Lister's second paper on bacteriology, in which he announced his isolation of bacterium lactis, the micro-organism responsible for the lactic fermentation of milk. Garrison-Morton 2484; Osler 1676 xii; Norman 1372. -- An Address on the effect of the Antiseptic Treatment upon the general Salubrity of Surgical Hospitals. Offprint from the British Medical Journal, December 25th, 1875. [London, 1875]. Disbound. (Minor marginal dampstaining.) Osler 1676 xxix; Norman 1373. -- On the Catgut Ligature. An address delivered before the Clinical Society of London, January 28th. Offprint from the Transactions of the Clinical Society of London 14 (1881). London, 1881. One wood-engraving in text. Disbound. An article on improvements in sterile catgut. Garrison-Morton 5616; Osler 1676 xv; Norman 1374. Together 6 pamphlets, 8o, caption titles, all but the fifth in original printed wrappers; all FIRST EDITIONS, offprint issues. Lister, the first medical practitioner to be elevated to the peerage, wrote no books, all of his published wrtiings being in the form of journal articles and a few separate papers. The Norman collection of Lister's papers exceeds in importance if not in quantity that of Sir William Osler, who lacked Lister's most important articles. (6)