Abstract
IN one of Thomas De Quincy's narrative and miscellaneous papers, the Spanish Nun, two passages have a certain medical interest. The first evokes one's curiosity by his use of the word antiseptic in a sense that suggests to a modern reader the meaning it has derived only since the discoveries of Pasteur, Koch and Lister. Yet De Quincy died in 1859, seventeen years before Pasteur's work on the fermentation of beer and Koch's isolation of the bacillus of anthrax, and still longer before Lister's application of the antiseptic method to surgery. One wonders when the word became current in . . .
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