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Staphylococcus Aureus and the Non-Denial Denial

The Anthropocene Reviewed

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'If I Should Die, Think Only This of Me'

Alexander ogsten was a huge fan of joseph lister, whose observations about post surgical infection led to use of carbolic acid and other sterilization techniques. These dramatically increased surgical survival rates. Ogden was so obsessed with lister's carbolic acid spray that his students wrote a poem about it. For every sort of scratch, where others would attatch a sticking plaster patch, he gave the spray. It's all right, but it's no rupert brooke.

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