[Download]->The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine Writen By Lindsey Fitzharris
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
By : Lindsey Fitzharris
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Book Synopsis :
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 place for the squeamish--and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed and brute strength. These medical pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than their patients' afflictions, and they were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldn't have been more hazardous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister, who would solve the deadly riddle and change the course of history.Fitzharris dramatically recounts Lister's discoveries in gripping detail, culminating in his audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection--and could be countered by antiseptics. Focusing on the tumultuous period from 1850 to 1875, she
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Author : Lindsey Fitzharris
Pages : 286 pages
Publisher : Scientific American
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 0374537968
ISBN-13 : 9780374537968
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