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  Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Lister found that carbolic acid solution swabbed on wounds markedly reduced the incidence of gangrene and subsequently published a series of articles on the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery describing this procedure on March 16 1867 in the journal The Lancet.
Lister left Glasgow in 1869 returning to Edinburgh as successor to Syme as Professor of Surgery,at Edinburgh University and continued to develop improved methods of antisepsis and asepsis.
Lister retired from practice after his wife, who had long helped him in research, died in 1893 during one of the few vacations they allowed themselves.
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 Lister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lister is a northern suburb of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, adjacent to Manningham.
It has a large south Asian population concentrated in the area around Lister's Mill, one of England's most impressive pieces of industrial architecture.
Lister is named for Samuel Cunliffe Lister (1815-1906), a British inventor and industrialist, who played a key role in the development of Bradford's wool industry during the nineteenth century industrial revolution.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lister   (123 words)

  
 CONK! Encyclopedia: Surgery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
However, the move to longer operations increased the danger of dangerous complications since the prolonged exposure of surgical wounds to the open air heightened the chance of infections.
It was only in the late 19th century with the rise of microbiology with scientists like Louis Pasteur and innovative doctors who applied their findings like Joseph Lister did the idea of strict cleanliness and sterile settings during arise.
Surgeons are distinguished from physicians by being referred to as "Mister." This tradition has its origins in the 18th century, when surgeons were barber-surgeons and did not have a degree (or indeed any formal qualification), unlike physicians, who were doctors with a university medical degree.
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 info: JOSEPH LISTER
The planes were already in the Gulf area, having here I'm not afraid anymore,' said Arnita Lister of Shreveport, La..
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister of Lyme Regis OM PRS (April 5, 1827 — February 10, 1912) was a famous British surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Joseph Lister - English surgeon credied with the introduction of antisepsis.
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 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Bradford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Bradford gives its name to the metropolitan borough named the City of Bradford Metropolitan District, discussed in a separate article, which also takes in many towns and villages in the surrounding area.
Also still standing is Lister's Mill (or Manningham Mills), once owned by Samuel Lister.
It is believed that the chimney of Lister's mill can be seen from just about anywhere in Bradford.
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 Bradford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Bradford is the district with the fourth highest percentage of Muslims in Britain (16.1% compared to an average of 3.0%).
The giant chimney is that of Lister's Mill
It is believed that the chimney of Lister's mill can be seen from just about anywere in Bradford.
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 Encyclopedia: 1867   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (April 5, 1827-February 10, 1912) was a famous British surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Infirmary.
An antiseptic is a substance that kills or prevents the growth and reproduction of various microorganisms, including bacteria, fungi, protozoa, and viruses on the external surfaces of the body.
Harvard, see Harvard (disambiguation) Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League.
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 Word Sense Disambiguation
Also, it pervades normal language use; humans have to disambiguate constantly (and subconsciously) in normal communication using textual and other types of context.
Error analysis performed during the Indexing Initiative evaluation process indicated word sense disambiguation as an area of focus for continued enhancement of the Medical Text Indexer.
One challenge in this method is that it requires a significant amount of training text, which must often be disambiguated by hand.
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 Surgery [Definition]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
There are many nervous diseases for which conventional surgical treatment is difficult or has many deleterious consequence...
Joseph ListerJoseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister (April 5, 1827-February 10, 1912) was a famous British surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
The more critical subsets of sepsis include severe sepsis (sepsis with organ dysfunction) and septic shock (sepsis with refractory arterial hypotension)....
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 Liverpool article - Liverpool city Merseyside England Mersey estuary traditional county Lancashire - What-Means.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
For alternate uses of "Liverpool" see Liverpool (disambiguation)
Charles Booth - Known for his surveys of poverty.
Craig Charles - Actor and comedian, played Dave Lister in Red Dwarf and currently hosts Robot Wars.
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 Titan (moon) - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Stanislaw Lem's novel Fiasco contains several chapters set on Titan, and a character who ends up frozen on the surface forseveral hundred years.
In the BBC television show Red Dwarf, the character Lister illegally imports a cat fromTitan that, through the action of hard radiation over millions of years, becomes the progenitor of a well-dressed, but notparticularly intelligent species called Felis sapiens.
In the television show Starhunter, Titan features prominently as the former home of the character Dante, and is thesite of a large colony.
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 Granby
Granby[?] is the name of a novel by T.H. Lister[?] published in 1826.
This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name.
If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.
www.fastload.org /gr/Granby.html   (109 words)

  
 Articles - Germ   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
For other senses of the word "germ", see germ (disambiguation).
When he presented his findings to fellow doctors, they discounted his theory, unable to believe in what they could not see.
It wasn't until the 1880s and the work of Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister that the truth of germs finally surfaced and was accepted by the scientific community.
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Swedish Constraint Grammar: A Short Presentation - A system for part-of-speech disambiguation and shallow syntactic analysis of running Swedish text.
Verbix: Conjugate Swedish verbs - Automatic conjugation of Swedish verbs, with all inflectional forms.
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 Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) Test Collection
The following paper describes in more detail the development of the test collection:
Developing a Test Collection for Biomedical Word Sense Disambiguation, AMIA 2001
Now Available from Dr. Ted Pedersen at the University of Minnesota, Duluth:
wsd.nlm.nih.gov   (537 words)

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