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Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982- author.
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Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912.
Surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Surgery -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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The butchering art :...
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The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine / Lindsey Fitzharris.
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Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982- author.
New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Subjects
Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912.
Surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Surgery -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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9780374117290 :
0374117292
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286 pages ; 24 cm
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First edition.
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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 and cold water -- They're all dead -- The storm -- The glass garden -- The queen's abscess -- Epilogue : The dark curtain, raised.
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A dramatic account of how 19th-century Quaker surgeon Joseph Lister developed an antiseptic method that indelibly changed medicine, describes the practices and risks of early operating theaters as well as the belief systems of Lister's contemporaries.
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Hawaii State Library
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617.092 Lister Fi
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