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The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine
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- ISBN: 9780374117290
- ISBN: 0374117292
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Physical Description:
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286 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-266) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue : The age of agony -- Through the lens -- Houses of death -- The sutured gut -- The altar of science -- The napoleon of surgery -- The frog's legs -- Cleanliness & godliness -- They're all dead -- The storm -- The glass garden -- The queen's abscess -- Epilogue : The dark curtain, raised. |
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| Subject: | Lister, Joseph -- Baron -- 1827-1912 Surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography Surgery -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century |
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