The illustrated history of surgery

• Main Author: Haeger, Knut 1925 (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: London Harold Starke ©1988
• Subjects: General Surgery > History
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• Physical Description: 288pages illustrations 26 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p.280-288) and index
• ISBN: 9781872457000; 1872457002

1. The beginning of medicine (Prehistoric and primitive healing -- Doctors in Mesopotamia -- Egyptian medicine -- Chinese surgery -- Indian surgery) -- 2. The rise of Western surgery (Traditional Greek surgery -- The Hippocratic age -- The Hellenistic doctors -- Sugery in Roman times -- The first nursing care -- The genius of Galen -- Aretaios the Cappadocian -- Byzantine surgery) -- 3. Medieval medicine (The first hospitals -- The Arab doctors -- The Salerno school -- Salerno's successors -- Three great Frenchmen -- The medieval English) -- 4. Surgery in the Renaissance (The birth of a new surgery -- From barbers to Paracelsus -- The breakthrough of Caesareans -- The Renaissance's greatest surgeon -- The specialists of Italy and Germany) -- 5. Medicine becomes a science (The circulation of blood -- The new English school -- Exhaustive treatment -- The Continental surgeons -- Blood transfusion makes its entreé -- The new art of childbirth -- The advent of forceps) -- 6. The surgeons of the Enlightenment (William Cheselden -- The art of stone-cutting -- Pott's four ailments -- The Hunter brothers -- Punching the professors -- Napoleon's surgeon -- Three Continental pioneers) -- 7. Surgery in the age of revolutions (The great Scots -- In the wake of Hunter -- The Continental pathologists -- Physiology crosses frontiers -- The conquest of pain -- Surgery in the United States) -- 8. The human face of surgery (French expertise -- Better medical care -- The dawn of bacteriology -- The baron of antiseptics -- Billroth and the Vienna schools -- Powder-blasted stumps) -- 9. The triumph of complex operations (The gastrointestinal tract -- The breasts -- The renaissance of urology -- Endocrine surgery) -- 10. The world of modern surgery (The central nervous system -- The blood vessels -- The chest -- Transplantation and plastic surgery -- Handmaidens of surgery -- Other specialties -- Surgery in the future) -- Chronological table