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Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982-
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Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912.
Surgery -- History -- 19th century.
Surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Surgery -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982-
Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912.
Surgery -- History -- 19th century.
Surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Surgery -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine / Lindsey Fitzharris.
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Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982-
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Call #:
617.092 F555b
Subjects
Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912.
Surgery
--
History
--
19th century.
Surgeons
--
Great
Britain
--
Biography
.
Surgery
--
Great
Britain
--
History
--
19th century.
ISBN:
9780374117290 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
286 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-266) and index.
Contents:
Prologue : the age of agony
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Through the lens
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Houses of death
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The sutured gut
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The altar of science
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The Napoleon of surgery
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The frog's legs
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Cleanliness and cold water
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They're all dead
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The storm
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The glass garden
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The queen's abscess
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Epilogue : the dark curtain, raised.
Summary:
A dramatic account of how 19th-century Quaker surgeon Joseph Lister developed an antiseptic method that indelibly changed medicine, describes the practices and risks of early operating theaters as well as the belief systems of Lister's contemporaries.
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