Lister Ward,

By Martin Goldman

Lister Ward describes life in a Victorian hospital from the sharp end of the scalpel - the scalpel, no less, of the legendary Joseph Lister. The book is based upon the diaries and letters of two of Lister's "guinea pigs": William Henley from London, a professional writer and self-confessed hedonist, and Shetlander Margaret Mathewson, the pious daughter of a parish teacher. Together with an account by one of Lister's students, an extract from one of Conan Doyle's stories and notes from Robert Louis Stevenson they paint a fascinating picture of a bygone era in an Edinburgh hospital and provide an unusual insight into one of the pioneers of modern medicine.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0852745621
• ISBN13: 9780852745625
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"