A History of SurgeryWritten in a lively and engaging style, by a medical author and teacher of great renown, this book provides a fascinating and interesting introduction to the subject for anyone with an interest in it. It illustrates some of the key advances in surgery from primitive techniques such as trepanning, through some of the gruesome but occasionally successful methods employed by the ancient civilisations, the increasingly sophisticated techniques of the Greeks and Romans, the advances of the Dark Ages and the Renaissance and on to the early pioneers of anaesthesia and antisepsis such as Morton, Lister and Pasteur. The impact of modern warfare on the development of surgical procedures is also discussed and Professor Ellis ends with a fascinating glimpse into the future of surgery in the next millenium. |
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this book contains beneficial historical information about the surgery and medical science in general. I recommend it for researchers who have inter-disciplinary research works.
Contents
Preface | vii |
Acknowledgements | ix |
Further Reading | xi |
| xiii | |
Surgery in Prehistoric Times | 1 |
The Early Years of Written History Mesopotamia Egypt China and India | 9 |
Surgery in Ancient Greece and Rome | 19 |
The Dark Ages and the Renaissance | 27 |
The Birth of Modern Surgery From Lister to the First World War | 99 |
The Surgery of Warfare | 125 |
Orthopaedic Surgery | 151 |
Breast Tumours | 165 |
Cutting for the Stone | 181 |
Thyroid and Parathyroid | 197 |
Thoracic and Vascular Surgery | 211 |
Organ Transplantation | 237 |
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| Title | A History of Surgery |
| Author | Harold Ellis |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 1841101818, 9781841101811 |
| Length | 282 pages |
| Subjects | › › Medical / Surgery / General |
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