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We are camping about a mile from the town in a corner of Mr. Lister's compound. It is pretty, with well-kept grass and flower-beds, and opposite is the Guest House of the Raj, where we would be staying now were it not that its roof is not quite safe, and it cannot be used. I went through it, and a great neglected place it is, with tawdry Early Victorian furniture and awful oleographs.
"The men come in, or are carried in, begrimed with powder, smoke, and dust; with broken limbs and gaping wounds, mortifying and almost unfit for inspection or handling until cleansed by the application of Lister's carbolic acid spray.
It was settled finally, after a good deal of pleasant discussion, that the wedding should take place early in the coming spring at latest in April. Even this seemed a long delay to Gilbert; but he submitted to it as an inevitable concession to the superior instinct of his betrothed, which harmonised so well with Mrs. Lister's ideas of wisdom and propriety.
When there is any difficulty in bringing the edges of the wound into apposition, a few interrupted relaxation stitches may be introduced wide of the margins, to take the strain off the coaptation stitches. Stout silk, fishing-gut, or silver wire may be employed for this purpose. When the tension is extreme, Lister's button suture may be employed.
He rather sympathized with Lister's embarrassment, and wondered whether Barbara meant to throw some light on the young man's character. When she stopped, he asked: "Did they talk about some burst boiler tubes?" "No," said Barbara. "We talked about gas-stoves and kitchen pans." Then she gave Cartwright a keen glance. "But what are boiler tubes? Do they sometimes burst?"
If you study the sales people, you can sometimes tell how a store is run." "That's so. Those girls don't want to grumble. They're treated all right." "Oh, well," said Lister, "since I don't know much about enameled goods and deerskin truck, I'm glad I've not got stung." When he went off the other smiled, for a hotel clerk is not often cheated, and he thought he saw where Lister's remarks led.
A group of excited passengers stood round them in the light that shone from the train and some others ran along the edge of the woods. The trooper and Shillito were gone. Lister's head hurt, he felt shaky, and when he wiped his face his hand was wet with blood. "My head's cut. S'pose I hit something when I fell," he said.
"Sometimes you're keen, but you didn't remark, I meant to give you a lead. Well, I didn't go altogether because I wanted to enjoy Mr. Lister's society. To see a cattle boat was something fresh and I was dull." "Then, when did Lister see a light? Since he stopped me, it's plain he'd got some illumination."
By this time, to be sure, as everybody knows, Lister's new methods had made their way everywhere, revolutionizing the practice of surgery and practically banishing from the earth maladies that hitherto had been the terror of the surgeon and the opprobrium of his art.
Lister's priority, however, and the superiority of his method, were freely admitted by the French Academy of Sciences, which in 1881 officially crowned his achievement, as the Royal Society of London had done the year before.
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