Stories
- In pictures
Bloodletting at the barber-surgeon’s
Scratchy throat? Burning fever? Broken heart? It all comes down to the same issue: too much blood.
- Article
The problem of the punctured heart
During World War II a young American surgeon working in England perfected shrapnel-removal techniques that saved dozens of lives. Discover how one case sealed his reputation as the founder of cardiac surgery.
- Article
The search for a cure for endometriosis
Discover how a white American doctor’s experimental operations on black female slaves laid the foundations for modern gynaecological surgery.
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The case of the cancerous stomach
Steak and schnitzel were on the menu again after Theodor Billroth successfully excised a woman’s stomach cancer in 1881. Remarkably, today’s surgeons still perform the same procedure, with slight modifications.
Catalogue
- Books
Surgeons' Hall : a museum anthology / Dawn Kemp with Sara Barnes.
Kemp, Dawn.Date: 2009- Books
Surgeons' lives : Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh : an anthology of College Fellows over 500 years / edited by Iain Macintyre and Iain MacLaren.
Date: 2005- Archives and manuscripts
Surgeons. Lists of recommendations by Association of Surgeons and Royal College of Surgeons
Date: 1949-1950Reference: PP/CMW/D.6/4Part of: Lord Moran (Charles McMoran Wilson) (1882-1977): archives- Books
Surgeons in the field / [John Laffin].
Laffin, John.Date: 1970- Ephemera
Surgeons general of the army ... surgeons general of the navy / compliments of Henry K. Wampole & Co., Inc.
Henry K. Wampole & Co.Date: 1912
