LISTER LIVED FOR MANY DECADES after his theories and techniques had been accepted, and he was eventually celebrated as a hero of surgery. He was appointed personal surgeon in ordinary to Queen Victoria—the term “in ordinary” signaling that it was a permanent position. In the final decades of his life, official accolades came thick and fast. He was awarded honorary doctorates from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford. He was awarded the Boudet Prize for the single greatest contribution to medicine.
