| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - In the 1860s, a period when the germ theory of disease had not yet been definitively established, Lister could not have intuited the fact that blood clots, suppuration, and antiseptics all had anti-microbial properties: clots (which trap and dispose of germs) and pus (the leukocytes and other cells of which destroy bacteria) are both immunological responses (Tortora & Derrickson, 354-7, 425-7).
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