The Butchering Art
Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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2018-10-02 - Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Word Count
76,000 words, Guess
Page Count
304 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- ISBN-100374537968
- ISBN-139780374537968
- Better World Books9780374537968
- Better World BooksP8-CXL-657
- Open LibraryOL27899188M
Description
286 pages : 24 cm
First Sentence
On the afternoon of December 21, 1846, hundreds of men crowded into the operating theater at London's University College Hospital, where the city's most renowned surgeon was preparing to enthrall them with a mid-thigh amputation.
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