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A History of Surgery

Book information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780429461743, 0429461747, 9780429867620, 042986762X, 9781138617391, 9781138617407
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
45 MB (47513364 bytes)
Edition
Third edition
Pages
\283
Time added
2019-09-24 23:53:49

Description

Content: Surgery in prehistoric times -- The early years of written history : Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, China and India -- Surgery in ancient Greece and Rome -- The Dark Ages and the Renaissance -- The age of the surgeon-anatomist : part 1-from the mid 16th century to the end of the 17th century -- The age of the surgeon-anatomist : part 2-from the beginning of the 18th century to the mid 19th century -- The advent of anaesthesia and antisepsis -- The birth of modern surgery from Lister to the 20th century -- The surgery of warfare -- Orthopaedic surgery -- Breast tumours -- Cutting for the stone -- Thyroid and parathyroid -- Thoracic and vascular surgery -- Organ transplantation -- A history of surgery.

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