The Cambridge illustrated history of surgery / Harold Ellis.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiii, 274 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cmISBN: - 9780521896238 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780521720335 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Illustrated history of surgery
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- RD19 .E43 2009
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Rev. ed of: A history of surgery / Harold Ellis. 2001.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xiii) and index.
Surgery in prehistoric times -- The early years of written history : Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and India -- Surgery in ancient Greece and Rome -- The Dark Ages and the Renaissance -- The age of the surgeon-anatomist : from the mid 16th century to the end of the 17th century -- The age of the surgeon-anatomis : 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 -- Envoi : today and tomorrow.