The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine

by Lindsey Fitzharris

be wary of falling too far under one man’s sway: “Nullius jurare in verba magistri” (Swear allegiance to no master).

James Hutton’s notion of deep time, a

during the first three years of his marriage, he managed to publish fifteen papers,

Unacknowledged womens Labor

“I am extremely surprised at the precision of your manipulations, [and] at your perfect comprehension of the experimental method.” He was amazed that Lister could find the time to conduct such complex research while also attending to his patients. “It is a perfect enigma to me,” he wrote to Lister, “that you can devote yourself to researches which demand so much care, time and incessant painstaking, at the same time as you devote yourself to the profession of surgery and to that of chief surgeon to a great hospital. I do not think that another instance of such a prodigy could be found amongst us here.”

I would expect a surgeon to be scientific