The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine / Lindsey Fitzharris.
By: Fitzharris, Lindsey [author.].
Publisher: New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©2017Edition: First edition.Description: 286 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780374117290 (hardcover).Subject(s): Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912 | Surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography | Surgery -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Print books.
Contents:
Prologue : The age of agony -- Through the lens -- Houses of death -- The sutured gut -- The altar of science -- The napoleon of surgery -- The frog's legs -- Cleanliness & godliness -- They're all dead -- The storm -- The glass garden -- The queen's abscess -- Epilogue : The dark curtain, raised.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-266) and index.
Prologue : The age of agony -- Through the lens -- Houses of death -- The sutured gut -- The altar of science -- The napoleon of surgery -- The frog's legs -- Cleanliness & godliness -- They're all dead -- The storm -- The glass garden -- The queen's abscess -- Epilogue : The dark curtain, raised.