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(0)Lindsey Fitzharris
Author
Publisher
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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.
"In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters--no...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"This book delves into several illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations. Each chapter explores the history of a specific disease, detailing the symptoms, cures, and medical breakthroughs that it spawned"--