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This experience was to have a major influence on his future career and life's work. He became an early disciple of
Listerian antisepsis and was to practice and promote this throughout his working life. He would later promote the techniques of aseptic surgery as these emerged as superior. He
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and served as president in 1919. He was awarded the Liston
Victoria Jubilee Prize by the RCSEd in 1901 "for the greatest benefit done to practical surgery by any Fellow or Licentiate of the College" in the preceding four years. In 1910 he was elected a member of the
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in Vienna allowed him to successfully pioneer intestinal surgery in
Scotland. He was one of the first to perform major gastrointestinal resections in Scotland. The operations he performed included excision of the tongue for carcinoma, closure of perforated
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FRCSEd (8 August 1853 – 2 November 1926) was a
Scottish surgeon who was an early advocate of Listerian antisepsis and then asepsis. He was a pioneer of gastrointestinal surgery. From 1908 to 1919 he was Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery at the
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and at Minto House, he became assistant surgeon to The Royal
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in 1880. He then made the first of what became a series of regular visits to surgical centres in Europe, studying under the leading German pathologist
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in a house which had originally been the home of Sir
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