A GREAT SURGEON SPEAKS
A scientific furlough devoted to a book on the pathological anatomy of flat feet helped to finish the book but not the carbolic eczema of my hands. On the contrary it grew worse at the slightest irritation, and developed into a regular idiosyncrasy against any antiseptic, whether carbolic, sublimate, or iodoform. I was to learn that I was absolutely unfit to be a surgeon in the Lister era.