Saturday the 5th April was the 187th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Lister, pioneer of antiseptic surgery. We were tweeting throughout the day to share Lister-related items from our archive and museum collections. You can have a look through the day’s activity below if you missed it first time round. You can see all of this on Storify too at http://rcp.sg/listertweets
Joseph Lister, pioneer of antiseptic surgery, was born #OnThisDay in 1827. We'll be tweeting #JosephLister items from our archive today.
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
Portrait of Lister as a young man. #JosephLister was born in Essex, studied at UCL & entered @RCSnews at age of 26 http://t.co/xAPZTrBjID
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
Here's another portrait: An etching of #JosephLister by Wilfred C. Appleby http://t.co/4qL0GAQzmF
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
While in Glasgow, #JosephLister was Professor of Surgery @GlasgowUni and worked at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in charge of two wards
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
It was while working in his wards in Glasgow from 1861 to 1869 that #JosephLister started his work with antiseptic treatment
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
The College holds a number of items relating to #JosephLister and the Lister Wards, including these photos http://t.co/b7YWUyXKVa
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
Our Lister Room, named after #JosephLister, houses a plaque, a table and the original fireplace from the Lister Wards http://t.co/U3uKWmY7xY
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
Here's a closer look at the table, which came to the College after the Lister Wards were demolished http://t.co/HMVBnAM7ei #JosephLister
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
We've also cleared some space in the Lister Room's book cases to display #JosephLister's graduation gown http://t.co/glxVhQPgSa
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
We have other instruments relating to #JosephLister, like this carbolic spray http://t.co/TPzilgcvU7 More info at http://t.co/okfuR6Evb1
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
And we have this pocket set of surgical instrument, used by #JosephLister while working in Glasgow http://t.co/fZJKeI7m5F
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
Where's Lister? See if you can find him – he's hiding somewhere in this composite photograph. http://t.co/evicxVPxpR #JosephLister
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
That composite photo is quite something… not sure we could manage something like that without the luxury of Photoshop! #JosephLister
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
The composite photo shows #JosephLister with all his House Surgeons and Dressers from 1861 to 1893.
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
Did you get it? #JosephLister is right at the front of the picture – we've circled him in case you couldn't spot him http://t.co/pTDlYfdgUg
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
We'll finish off with a nice portrait of #JosephLister http://t.co/YvzVRhynhX (mezzotint by T. Hamilton Crawford after W. W. Ouless, R.A.)
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
#JosephLister born #OnThisDay 1827. Hope you enjoyed celebrating his birthday with us! See more on our collections at http://t.co/ZV7AZMeH9E
— RCPSG Library (@RCPSGlibrary) April 5, 2014
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