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Rt Hon. Lord Joseph Lister OM PC PRS

Photograph at the Rt Hon. Lord Joseph Lister OM PC PRS stone plaque

On this site stood the surgical wards in which from 1861 to 1869 Joseph Lister surgeon to the Royal Infirmary and Regius Professor of Surgery in the University of Glasgow initiated the method of antiseptic treatment

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