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Surgery
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SURGERY, med. jur. That part of the healing art which relates to external diseases; their treatment; and, specially, to the manual operations adopted for their cure.
     2. Every lawyer should have some acquaintance with surgery; his knowledge on this subject will be found useful in cases of homicide and wounds.
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It was largely due to Dr MacGregor's efforts - assisted, as he freely admitted, by Joseph Lister's advances in antiseptic surgery - that surgical operations went up to 1,500 a year and deaths from sepsis dropped to almost nil.
Town's Dr Mac was way ahead of his time by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
He went on to pioneer the use of antiseptic surgery during the war.
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Others not born in Scotland but in the top 50 include Joseph Lister, the father of antiseptic surgery, and Fran Healy, the lead singer of Travis.
100 Greatest Scots by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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