The Cambridge illustrated history of surgery
2nd ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Ellis, Harold, 1926- - Contributor
Publication
2009 - Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England
Language
English
Word Count
68,500 words, Guess
Page Count
274 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveproactivesupport0000reuw
- ISBN-139780521896238
- ISBN-139780521720335
- ISBN-100521896231
- ISBN-100521720338
and 9 more
- Goodreads6170537
- LibraryThing8513958
- Library of Congress Control Number2008039645
- Library of Congress Control Number2008049115
- ISBN-139780521735776
- OCLC Control Number253187716
- Better World Books9780521720335
- Better World Books9780521896238
- Open LibraryOL22551371M
Classifications
- DDC617
- LCCRD19 .E43 2009
- LCCRD19
and 1 more
- LCCRG524 .R873 2009
Alternate Titles
- Illustrated history of surgery
Description
Written in a lively and engaging style, by a medical author and teacher of great renown, this book provides a fascinating and informative introduction to the development of surgery through the ages. It illustrates some of the key advances in surgery from primitive techniques such as trepanning, through some of the gruesome but occasionally successful methods employed by the ancient civilisations, the increasingly sophisticated techniques of the Greeks and Romans, the advances of the Dark Ages and the Renaissance and on to the early pioneers of anaesthesia and antisepsis such as Morton, Lister and Pasteur. Heavily illustrated in colour.
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