Practising on principle: Joseph Lister and the germ theories of disease

Medical Theory, Surgical Practice: Studies in the History of Surgery

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 153-215

  Lawrence, Christopher ^a   Dixey, Richard ^a  

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DOI: 10.4324/9780429020094-6     Document Type: Chapter

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