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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780141983387
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- Item Height
- 198 mm
- Publisher
- Penguin Books LTD
- Subject
- Medicine, Surgery, Science, History
- Item Weight
- 224 g
- Item Width
- 129 mm
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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The spellbinding story of a visionary British surgeon who changed medicine forever In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know today. Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitzharris reminds us, since half of those who underwent surgery didn't survive the experience. This was an era when a broken leg could lead to amputation, and surgeons were still known to ransack cemeteries to find cadavers. And in squalid, overcrowded hospitals, doctors remained baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldn't have been more dangerous, an unlikely figure stepped forward- Joseph Lister, a young Quaker surgeon. By making the audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection - and could be treated with antiseptics - he changed the history of medicine forever. With a novelist's eye for detail, Fitzharris brilliantly conjures up the grisly world of Victorian surgery, revealing how one of Britain's greatest medical minds finally brought centuries of savagery, sawing and gangrene to an end.
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Penguin Books LTD
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9780141983387
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304 Pages
Publication Name
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Surgery, Science, History
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
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Item Height
198 mm
Item Weight
224 g
Item Width
129 mm
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United Kingdom
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