The Cambridge illustrated history of surgery
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The Cambridge illustrated history of surgery
Cambridge University Press, 2009
2nd ed
- pbk. : alk. paper
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Rev. ed of: A history of surgery / Harold Ellis. 2001
Includes bibliographical references (p. xiii) and index
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Contents of Works
- Surgery in prehistoric times
- The early years of written history : Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and India
- Surgery in ancient Greece and Rome
- The Dark Ages and the Renaissance
- The age of the surgeon-anatomist : from the mid 16th century to the end of the 17th century
- The age of the surgeon-anatomis : from the beginning of the 18th century to the mid 19th century
- The advent of anaesthesia and antisepsis
- The birth of modern surgery from Lister to the 20th century
- The surgery of warfare
- Orthopaedic surgery
- Breast tumours
- Cutting for the stone
- Thyroid and parathyroid
- Thoracic and vascular surgery
- Organ transplantation
- Envoi : today and tomorrow
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Further reading
- Picture index
- 1. Surgery in prehistoric times
- 2. The early years of written history - Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India
- 3. Surgery in Ancient Greece and Rome
- 4. The Dark Ages and the Renaissance
- 5. The age of the surgeon-anatomist: Part 1 - From the mid sixteenth century to the end of the seventeenth century
- 6. The age of the surgeon-anatomist: Part 2 - From the beginning of the eighteenth century to the mid nineteenth century
- 7. The advent of anaesthesia and antisepsis
- 8. The birth of modern surgery - from Lister to the twentieth century
- 9. The surgery of warfare
- 10. Orthopaedic surgery
- 11. Breast tumours
- 12. Cutting for the stone
- 13. Thyroid and parathyroid
- 14. Thoracic and vascular surgery
- 15. Organ transplantation
- 16. Envoi - today and tomorrow
- Index.
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