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The museums, the machines and the men and women who worked it out: laboratories kept as they were, beam engines under steam, the tunnel, the barrier, the roofs, and the plaques on the houses where the ideas came.
The house of the surgeon who made operations survivable, on Nash's crescent at the top of Portland Place.
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Lister came to London from Edinburgh in 1877, a professor at King's College Hospital whose carbolic-acid antisepsis had already cut the death rate of amputations from half to a sixth, and lived here until his death in 1912, a baronet, a peer and the first surgeon in the House of Lords; the plaque is on the Park Crescent house, and the Lister Institute and the mouthwash are the two things that carry his name. Round the corner on Portland Place is his memorial.
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