A History of SurgeryCambridge University Press, 2002 - 282 pages Written in a lively and engaging style, by a medical author and teacher of great renown, this book provides a fascinating and interesting introduction to the subject for anyone with an interest in it. It illustrates some of the key advances in surgery from primitive techniques such as trepanning, through some of the gruesome but occasionally successful methods employed by the ancient civilisations, the increasingly sophisticated techniques of the Greeks and Romans, the advances of the Dark Ages and the Renaissance and on to the early pioneers of anaesthesia and antisepsis such as Morton, Lister and Pasteur. The impact of modern warfare on the development of surgical procedures is also discussed and Professor Ellis ends with a fascinating glimpse into the future of surgery in the next millenium. |
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... technique . Chapter 3 3.1 ( Page 21 ) Hippocrates : a conventional bust , since no one knows what he really looked like ! From William Osler : Evolution of Modern Medicine . New Haven , Yale University Press , 1921 . 3.2 ( Page 22 ) The ...
... technique . Chapter 3 3.1 ( Page 21 ) Hippocrates : a conventional bust , since no one knows what he really looked like ! From William Osler : Evolution of Modern Medicine . New Haven , Yale University Press , 1921 . 3.2 ( Page 22 ) The ...
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... technique of suction debridement of a cerebral wound track . 9.27 ( Page 143 ) Harvey Cushing and his team at a Casualty Clearing Station in 1917. Cushing sits in the front row on the left . Cushing H : From a Surgeon's Journal 1915 ...
... technique of suction debridement of a cerebral wound track . 9.27 ( Page 143 ) Harvey Cushing and his team at a Casualty Clearing Station in 1917. Cushing sits in the front row on the left . Cushing H : From a Surgeon's Journal 1915 ...
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... technique . Pancoast J : Treatise on Operative Surgery . Philadelphia , Carey and Hart , 1844 . 11.6 ( Page 172 ) Sir James Paget . Royal College of Surgeons of England . 11.7 ( Page 174 ) Patient submitted to radical mastectomy by ...
... technique . Pancoast J : Treatise on Operative Surgery . Philadelphia , Carey and Hart , 1844 . 11.6 ( Page 172 ) Sir James Paget . Royal College of Surgeons of England . 11.7 ( Page 174 ) Patient submitted to radical mastectomy by ...
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... technique of radium implanta- tion ' . Keynes G : The radium treatment of carcinoma of the breast . British Journal of Surgery 1931-1 ; 19 , 425 . 11.17 ( Page 179 ) Patient treated by Keynes with radium implanta- tion . ( a ) early ...
... technique of radium implanta- tion ' . Keynes G : The radium treatment of carcinoma of the breast . British Journal of Surgery 1931-1 ; 19 , 425 . 11.17 ( Page 179 ) Patient treated by Keynes with radium implanta- tion . ( a ) early ...
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... technique . ( a ) Isolation of the superior thyroid vessels ; the instrument is Kocher's gland dissector . ( b ) Application of Kocher's crushing forceps to the thyroid isthmus before ligation . Kocher T : Textbook of Operative Surgery ...
... technique . ( a ) Isolation of the superior thyroid vessels ; the instrument is Kocher's gland dissector . ( b ) Application of Kocher's crushing forceps to the thyroid isthmus before ligation . Kocher T : Textbook of Operative Surgery ...
Contents
Preface | vii |
Acknowledgements | ix |
Further Reading | xi |
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Surgery in Prehistoric Times | 1 |
The Early Years of Written History Mesopotamia Egypt China and India | 9 |
Surgery in Ancient Greece and Rome | 19 |
The Dark Ages and the Renaissance | 27 |
The Birth of Modern Surgery From Lister to the First World War | 99 |
The Surgery of Warfare | 125 |
Orthopaedic Surgery | 151 |
Breast Tumours | 165 |
Cutting for the Stone | 181 |
Thyroid and Parathyroid | 197 |
Thoracic and Vascular Surgery | 211 |
Organ Transplantation | 237 |
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