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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982-     Subjects     Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912.     Surgery -- History -- 19th century.     Surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Surgery -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982-       by title:      The butchering art :...       by call number:      617.092 F555b     Search the Web     Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982-     Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912.     Surgery -- History -- 19th century.     Surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Surgery -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.       MARC Display

The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine / Lindsey Fitzharris. by 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 -- Through the lens -- Houses of death -- The sutured gut -- The altar of science -- The Napoleon of surgery -- The frog's legs -- Cleanliness and cold water -- They're all dead -- The storm -- The glass garden -- The queen's abscess -- 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. Holds:  2   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 617.092 F555b Adult books Adult Display 4 Add Copy to MyList Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 617.092 F555b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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