The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine

The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine / Lindsey Fitzharris.

A dramatic account of how 19th-century Quaker surgeon Joseph Lister developed an antiseptic method that indelibly changed medicine, describes the practices and risks of early operating theaters as well as the belief systems of Lister's contemporaries.

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Main Author: Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Lister, Joseph, > Baron, > 1827-1912.
Surgeons > Great Britain > Biography.
Surgery > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Biographies.
Biography.
History.
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Call Number: RD27.35.L57 F58 2017
Status: Available

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