Note 2 — Chapter XII · LISTON, SYME, LIZARS, AND THE NEWER SURGERY.
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The writer is indebted for this anecdote to Dr. Paterson’s “Memorials of the Life of James Syme,” in which a number of incidents relating to Liston are given, with an interesting parallel between the careers of the two great surgeons (chapter xii., p. 210-216). It is much to be regretted that no biography of Robert Liston has yet been written.