The Butchering Art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of victorian medicine / Lindsey Fitzharris.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Scientific American/Farrar Straus and Giroux, [2017]Edition: First editionDescription: 286 sISBN:- 9780374117290
- 9780374537968
- 617.092 23/swe
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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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