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I HAVE responded with great pleasure to the honourable request that I should give some sketch, for the readers of NATURE, of Sir Joseph Lister's scientific eminence. As a confrère I know him not merely from his prominent scientific renown, but also as a friend, and I too, like other German surgeons, have sought out the founder of modern surgery in his London hospital and, filled with gratitude, have laid my homage at his feet. Lister was many years ago in Leipzig, and I shall never forget the fête we then organised in his honour. How we cheered him on that evening, professors and students, old and young ! For was it not in Germany first, rather than in England, that his scientific works met with their earliest recognition and general appreciation ! Lister was in his day a prophet, and proclaimed a new doctrine for the healing of wounds. And how often prophets fail to find in their own fatherland, especially in the early stages of their activity, the recognition they so well deserve !
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TILLMANNS, H. Scientific Worthies. XXIX.—Sir Joseph Lister. Nature 54, 1–5 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054001a0
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