64mm. Bronze. By Charles Leonard Hartwell, for Pinches.
Awarded by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The Lister Medal for Distinguished Contributions to Surgical Science. Obverse with bust of Lister, reverse named in central tablet to John Cedric Goligher (1981).
Good Extremely Fine and housed in fitted Pinches case of issue. Accompanied by another medal (bronze, 71mm), awarded to the same recipient. The 'Olof af Acrel medal of the Swedish Surgical Society', by Sporrong & Co.
The Lister Medal was first awarded in 1924 and is awarded every 3 years. As of 2015, only 27 people have ever been awarded it.
John Cedric Goligher (1912–1998) was a British surgeon who specialised in diseases of the rectum and colon and in coloproctology. He was renowned worldwide and had a national and international reputation. He is considered to have been one of the preeminent clinical investigative surgeons of his time.