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Autograph Testimonial Signed ‘Lister’, for Dr. W.Bullock, head of the Serum Department, suggesting that one of the Grocers’ Scholarships would be well bestowed on Bullock, who “is now engaged in a research which has already yielded important results and promises to be of high value”. 3 pp. 7 x 4 inches, fine. 12 Park Crescent, Portland Place, 26 April 1900. Joseph Lister (1827-1912), surgeon, whose work introduced the antiseptic system into modern surgery, and who developed a commercial serum therapy against diptheria. The subject of Lister’s testimonial is Dr W. Bullock, head of the Serum Department at the British (Jenner, and later Lister) Institute of Preventive Medicine (founded by Lister and others), and subsequently Professor of Bacteriology at the London Hospital Medical School.