Victorian joseph lister biography en ingles

We hold him for another Herakles,
Battling with custom, prejudice, disease
As once the son of Zeus with Death and Hell [W. E. Henley, "The Chief," In Hospital]

Joseph Lister is unique in having memorial plaques at each of the University of London's founding colleges: he was a student at University College from 1843 to 1853, and a Professor of Surgery at King's from 1877-1892.

He continued at King's College Hospital for another year after that, mainly in a consultant capacity.

Memorial plaques for Lister at University College, London (left), and King's College, London (right).

Victorian joseph lister biography en ingles

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Born at Upton House in West Ham (then in Essex, but now very much a part of London), Lister was the fourth of seven children of a "scientifically minded Quaker" (Ellis 347). He was exactly the kind of student to benefit from the more practical education on offer at the non-sectarian University College.

From boyhood, his main interest had been in natural history,