The butchering art: Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine
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"In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters--no place for the squeamish--and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed and brute strength. These medical pioneers knew that the aftermath of surgery was often more dangerous than their patients' afflictions, and they were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. At a time when surgery couldn't have been more hazardous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister, who would solve the deadly riddle and change the course of history. Fitzharris dramatically recounts Lister's discoveries in gripping detail, culminating in his audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection--and could be countered by antiseptics. Focusing on the tumultuous period from 1850 to 1875, she introduces us to Lister and his contemporaries--some of them brilliant, some outright criminal--and takes us through the grimy medical schools and dreary hospitals where they learned their art, the deadhouses where they studied anatomy, and the graveyards they occasionally ransacked for cadavers"--
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Antiseptics
Antiseptics -- History
Biographies
Biography & Autobiography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical -- General
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Great Britain
History
Infection Control
Lister, Joseph
Lister, Joseph, -- Baron, -- 1827-1912
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MEDICAL -- History
MEDICAL -- Infection Control
MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General
Medicine
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Surgeons
Surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography
Surgery
Surgery -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Antiseptics -- History
Biographies
Biography & Autobiography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical -- General
Electronic books
General
Great Britain
History
Infection Control
Lister, Joseph
Lister, Joseph, -- Baron, -- 1827-1912
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MEDICAL -- Infection Control
MEDICAL -- Surgery -- General
Medicine
Medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Nonfiction
Surgeons
Surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography
Surgery
Surgery -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine
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The butchering art [electronic resource] : Joseph lister's quest to transform the grisly world of victorian medicine. Lindsey Fitzharris
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