LISTER, Joseph. 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. Correction label pasted to upper wrapper: "Corrected February 1870. See Page 13." Original printed wrappers; cloth slipcase. 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. -- On the Effects of the Antiseptic System of Treatment upon the Salubrity of a Surgical Hospital. Offprint from: The Lancet, 1870. Edinburgh, 1870. Modern grey cloth. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "From the Author" on title. 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). Norman 1371; Osler 1676 xxvi. -- "A Contribution of the Germ Theory of Putrefaction and Other Fermentative Changes and to the Natural History of Torulae and Bacteria." Offprint from: Trans. of the Roy. Soc. of Edin., vol. XXVII. Edinburgh: Neill and Company for the Society, 1875. 4o. Contemporary pebbled cloth (rebacked). PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "Thomas Watson Cheyne with the author's kind regards" (first line cropped). With card presenting the book by Cheyne on pastedown. Watson Cheyne and Sir Rickman Godlee were Lister's assistants for many years. (3)