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Joseph Lister  

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  • Joseph Lister was a British surgeon best remembered today for pioneering antiseptic techniques to reduce infection rates, and thus morbidity and mortality, following surgical procedures. Lister was born to a Quaker family in Upton, Essex, England; his father was the physicist Joseph Jackson Lister, who invented the achromatic microscope. [Source: Encyclopedia of Epidemiology; Lister, Joseph (1827–1912)]

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