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- Title
Joseph Lister: a neglected master of investigative dermatology.
- Authors
Savin, J. A.
- Abstract
This article presents a profile of dermatologist Joseph Lister. Joseph Lister sensed that his work on the pathophysiology of the skin would quickly be forgotten, and he was right. His fellow surgeons saw it as no more than one of the minor fringe activities of a man whose main role in life was to make surgery safe. Lister studied the common British frog, Rana temporaria, which changes its colour almost as readily as a chameleon. The colour of amphibians had been known, since 1852, to be due to dark granules lying within stellate cells in the skin, but these had been seen rather indistinctly. Lister was the first to describe the longitudinal striations in smooth muscle and to measure cells in different phases of contraction.
- Subjects
LISTER, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912; DERMATOLOGISTS; PATHOLOGICAL physiology; AMPHIBIANS; HERPETOLOGY; SMOOTH muscle
- Publication
British Journal of Dermatology, 1995, Vol 132, Issue 6, p1003
- ISSN
0007-0963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1365-2133.ep14932689