Alexander Ogston (1844-1929). University Aberdeen MD 1866. Regius Professor Surgery 1882. He early introduced the antiseptic-carbolic spray of Lister into his Aberdeen operating-theatre, and became competent with the Zeiss microscope and the staining-techniques of Koch with the methyl-aniline blue dye. Ogston supported and employed Koch's Postulates, and distinguished the string-like Streptococci sp. from the clustered Staphylococcus sp., noting the golden-yellow growth in culture of Staph. aureus. Whilst many of his contemporaries remained sceptical, Lister encouraged him. Ogston served in the Egyptian War (1884) and the First Boer War, and was advisor to the Army Medical Service in 1898.


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