THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SURGERY by Harold Ellis ( 9780521720335 )

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Title:

THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SURGERY

By:

Harold Ellis

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0521720338

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9780521720335

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

11 December, 2008

Pages:

285

Description:

Written in a lively and engaging style, this book provides a fascinating introduction to the development of surgery through the ages.

Synopsis:

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.

Illustrations:

280 figures

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Cambridge University Press

Prizes:

Commended for BMA Medical Book Competition: Surgery and Anaesthesia

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