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• Title:A history of surgery / Harold Ellis.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ellis, Harold, 1926-
  
• Published/Created:London : Greenwich Medical Media, 2001.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WO11.1 .E474 2001
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects: Surgery--History.
  
• Medical Subjects:Surgery--history.
  
• Description:xxiii, 264 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:"This book is an introduction to the history of surgery and will be compulsive reading for the surgeon and a revelation to the general reader. It illustrates some of the key advances in surgery, from primitive prehistoric techniques such as trephination of the skull, through some of the gruesome, but occasionally successful, methods employed by the ancient civilisations, and the increasingly sophisticated techniques of the Greeks and Romans. Further advances of the Dark Ages and the Renaissance precede the heyday of the great surgeon-anatomists of the 16th-18th centuries and the early 19th century pioneers of 'modern' medicine and surgery including Morton, Lister and Pasteur." "Over 200 carefully chosen illustrations enhance the highly readable text, making A History of Surgery a perfect addition to both a professional and a personal library."--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (page xi) and indexes.
  
• ISBN:1841100234
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. Surgery in prehistoric times
  Ch. 2. The early years of written history - Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India
  Ch. 3. Surgery in ancient Greece and Rome
  Ch. 4. The Dark Ages and the Renaissance
  Ch. 5. The age of the surgeon-anatomist: part 1 - from the mid 16th to the end of the 17th century
  Ch. 6. The age of the surgeon-anatomist: part 2 - from the beginning of the 18th century to the mid 19th century
  Ch. 7. The advent of anaesthesia and antisepsis
  Ch. 8. Birth of modern surgery - from Lister to the first World War
  Ch. 9. The surgery of warfare
  Ch. 10. Orthopaedic surgery
  Ch. 11. Breast tumours
  Ch. 12. Cutting for the stone
  Ch. 13. Thyroid and parathyroid
  Ch. 14. Thoracic and vascular surgery
  Ch. 15. Organ transplantation
  Ch. 16. Envoi - today and tomorrow.