I am a believer in the fundamental doctrines of Christianity.

- Joseph Lister

But when it has been shown by the researches of Pasteur that the septic property of the atmosphere depended not on the oxygen, or any gaseous constit…

- Joseph Lister

I trust I may be enabled in the treatment of patients always to act with a single eye to their good.

- Joseph Lister

If the love of surgery is a proof of a person's being adapted for it, then certainly I am fitted to he a surgeon; for thou can'st hardly conceive wha…

- Joseph Lister

If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and worldly honours to look to, our profession would not be one to be desired. But in its practice you will f…

- Joseph Lister

The frequency of disastrous consequences in compound fracture, contrasted with the complete immunity from danger to life or limb in simple fracture, …

- Joseph Lister