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Example sentences for: lister

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Joseph Lister pioneered the use of carbolic acid to keep wounds clean, and James Young Simpson experimented with chloroform as an anesthetic.
Critics delight in "one of the great literary hoaxes of the century" (David Lister, the Independent ), in which a best-selling British novelist tries to pass off his "biography" of a nonexistent painter as authentic.
William Ernest Henley had tuberculosis of the bone, was hospitalized for years and treated by Lord Lister himself with, I believe, scraping of the bone, and whatever primitive antisepsis was used in those days, probably carbolic acid.