TITLE:
The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine / Lindsey Fitzharris.
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Information:
New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Physical Description:
286 p.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-266) and index.
Summary:
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.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780374117290
