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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982- author.     Subjects     Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912.     Surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Surgery -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.     Medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.     Antiseptics -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982- author.       by title:      The butchering art :...         MARC Display

The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine / Lindsey Fitzharris. by Fitzharris, Lindsey, 1982- author. New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. Subjects Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912.   Surgeons -- Great Britain -- Biography.   Surgery -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.   Medicine -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.   Antiseptics -- History. ISBN:  9780374537968 (paperback) 0374537968 (paperback) Description:  286 pages ; 21 cm Edition:  First paperback edition. Contents:  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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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" --Publisher's description.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Aina Haina Public Library Adult Biography B Lister Fi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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