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• M Anne Crowther and Marguerite W Dupree. Medical lives in the age of surgical revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
• Thomas Dormandy. Moments of truth: four creators of modern medicine. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2003
• Isabelle MZ Elliott and James Rawlings Elliott. A short history of surgical dressings. London: Pharmaceutical Press, 1964
• Richard B Fisher. Joseph Lister 1827-1912. London: Macdonald and Jane’s, 1977
• Jerry L Gaw. ‘A time to heal’: the diffusion of Listerism in Victorian Britain. Philadelphia, Pa. : American Philosophical Society, 1999
• Sir Rickman John Godlee. Lord Lister. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924
• Lindsay Granshaw. ‘Upon this principle I have based a practice’: the development and reception of antisepsis in Britain, 1867-90’ in: John V. Pickstone (ed.) Medical innovations in historical perspective. Basingstoke; London: Macmillan, 1992
• David Hamilton. ‘The nineteenth-century surgical revolution: antisepsis or better nutrition?’, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 56:1, (1982), 30-40
• Claire EJ Herrick. ‘Cheyne, Sir William Watson, first baronet (1852-1932)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn. May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32396, accessed 21 Dec 2011]
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• Brian Hurwitz and Marguerite Dupree (eds). ‘Learning from Lister’, Notes & records of the Royal Society, 67:3, (2013), 185-294
• Christopher Lawrence and Andrew Dixey. ‘Practising on principle: Joseph Lister and germ theories of disease’ in: Christopher Lawrence (ed.) Medical theory, surgical practice: studies in the history of surgery. London: Routledge, 1992
• Christopher Lawrence. ‘Lister, Joseph Baron Lister (1827-1912)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http:www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34553, accessed 20 Dec 2011]
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• Benjamin A Rifkin, Michael J Ackerman and Judith Folkenberg. Human anatomy: depicting the body from the Renaissance to today. London: Thames and Hudson, 2006
• Guenter B Risse. Mending bodies, saving souls: a history of hospitals. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999
• HD Rolleston. ‘Godlee, Sir Rickman John, baronet (1849-1925)’ rev. Christopher Lawrence, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
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• Stephanie J Snow. Blessed days of anaesthesia: how anaesthetics changed the world. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008
• Peter Stanley. For fear of pain: British surgery, 1790-1850. New York; Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003
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• Wellcome Historical Museum. Lister centenary exhibition at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: handbook. London: Wellcome Foundation, 1927
• Michael Worboys. Spreading germs: disease theories and medical practice in Britain, 1865-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000
• AJ Youngson. The scientific revolution in Victorian medicine. London: Croom Helm, 1979

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