“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
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I would expect a surgeon to be scientific
