Bibliograph

The butchering art, Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine, Lindsey Fitzharris

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The butchering art, Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine, Lindsey Fitzharris

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-266) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The butchering art

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

978250363

Responsibility statement

Lindsey Fitzharris

Sub title

Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine

Summary

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

Table Of 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

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