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The Cambridge illustrated history of surgery (2nd ed)

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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, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Surgery is the only serious choice for a reader wanting a lively and informative single-volume introduction to surgical history.

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Cambridge University Press
0521720338 / 9780521720335
Paperback / softback
617.09
11/12/2008
United Kingdom
English
xiii, 274 p. : ill. (some col.)
25 cm
Previous ed.: published as A history of surgery. London: Greenwich Medical Media, 2001.