Excerpt from An Address Entitled: Some Reflections, Mainly Ethical, on the Present Position of Operations in the Practice of Surgery, Being the Annual Oration of the Medical Society of London, Delivered on May 18th, 1903

I am therefore thankful that my medical education commenced before the Listerian era, which, after all, is not so many years ago - a time when septic diseases, like erysipelas, cellulitis, osteomyelitis, and kindred conditions, were common consequences of operations, and formed a large proportion of hospital work - a time when the salvation of the patient and the reputation of the surgeon not infrequently depended upon the appearance of the pus which was called laudable - a time at which the author of one of the most successful text-books of the day took the opportunity of congratulating his readers that the science of surgery had advanced so far that but little further progress could be looked for, and when one of the foremost surgeons in London chose as the subject of his presidential address at the Clinical Society, "Pyæmia in Private Practice, " and gave many cases in illustration.

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