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Ep 107 Sepsis: It's a mess

This Podcast Will Kill You

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The History of the Microscope

As a senior medical student, Lister was appointed to be a dresser for John Erickson at University College Hospital. Part of his duties included standing by with a box of supplies to dress wounds during surgery or to change the bandages in post-surgical care. During one of these routine bandage changes, he unraveled the cloth on a patient's seeping, rotting wound and was met with a horrific odor. It was the dreaded hospital gangrene.

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