DREAMS HAVE PRICES

Dreams have prices
His name was Joseph Lister, and he was a second-generation physician born in England in 1827. Back in the days when he began practising Medicine, surgery was a painful, grisly affair.
If you had the misfortune of being injured and requiring surgery in the mid-1800s, here’s what you could have expected: you would have been taken to a hospital’s surgical theater, a building that was separate from the main hospital to prevent the regular patients from becoming upset by the screaming.
(Anesthesia had not yet been developed.) You would have been strapped to a table that looked a lot like the one in your kitchen, under which sat a tub of sand, positioned to catch blood.A physician likely surrounded by a group of observers and assistants would have performed your surgery.
All of them would be dressed in the regular street cloths they wore throughout the course of the day while travelling around town and treating patients. The instruments the doctor used would have been pulled from a nearby drawer where they had been placed (unwashed) after the previous surgery.
And if your surgeon needed his hands free while working on you, he might have held this surgical knife between his teeth.Your chances of surviving surgery would be a little better than 50 percent.
If you had the misfortune of having your operation in a military hospital, your chances of surviving would go down to about 10 percent. Of surgery during that era, one contemporary doctor wrote, “A man laid on the operating table in one of our surgical hospitals is exposed to more chances of death than the English soldier on the field of Waterloo.” Like the other surgeons of his time, Lister was distressed by the death rate of his patients, but he was ignorant of the cause.
However, he was determined to discover a way to save more of his patients.Lister’s first major breakthrough came after his friend Thomas Anderson, a chemistry professor, gave him some writings.
The papers were written by scientist Louis Pastuer. In them the French scientist stated his opinion that gangrenes was caused not by air, but by bacteria and germs present in air. Lister thought those ideas were remarkable. And he theorized that if the dangerous microbes could be eliminated, his patients would have a better chance of avoiding gangrene, blood poisoning, and other infections that often killed them.
When Lister, who was working at a hospital in Edinburgh, presented his beliefs to the senior surgeons, he was taunted, ridiculed, and rejected. Each day as he made his rounds, his colleagues insulted and enticed him mercilessly.
He was an outcast.Despite the rejection of his peers and an inherently gently nature, Lister refused to back down. He continued his work and waited.
One day, two days, then four days passed. To his joy, after four days there were no signs of fever or blood poisoning. After six weeks, the boy was able to walk again.Amid criticism, Lister used carbolic acid in all his procedures.
During 1865 and 1866, he treated eleven patients with compound fractures, and none of his patients contracted infections. As he continued his new procedures, he did research to improve his methods, finding additional antiseptic substances that worked even better.In 1867, Lister published his findings, and still the medical profession ridiculed him.
For more than a decade, he communicated his findings and encouraged other doctors to adopt his practice. Finally in 1881, sixteen years after his first success with a patient, his peers at the international medical congress held in London recognized his advances.
They called his work perhaps the greatest advance that surgery had made. In 1883, he was knighted. In 1899, he was made a baron. Today, if you’ve had any kind of surgery (if you’ve not, l don’t pray you do), you owe Dr. Joseph Lister a debt of gratitude.His determination secured your safetyTo make a change you must be willing to pay a price.
Men and women who have changed this world didn’t come about it over night. Though they were rejected, the end product was always motivating them forward.
What is it God has placed in your hand today? That could be surviving grace of someone somewhere. Don’t expect to have the world carrying you shoulder high when you come about something new. It’s only you that sees’ it in your mind’s eye and only you can see it to it’s concluding end. Do not be caught wasting your valuable time with dream busters, they will always be around and you are doomed if you spend your energy proving to them that you can do it. Prove it by taking action.Take a look around you. Someone invented all that you see.
But the truth of the matter is that whoever is involved paid a price to see turn from dreams to reality. If they can, you can. Good luck.