The Cambridge illustrated history of surgery / Harold Ellis.
- Ellis, Harold, 1926-
- Date:
- 2009
- Books
About this work
Also known as
Illustrated history of surgery
Description
Written in a lively and engaging style, by a medical author and teacher of great renown, this book provides a fascinating and informative introduction to the development of surgery through the ages. 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. Heavily illustrated in colour.
Publication/Creation
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Physical description
xiii, 274 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 cm
Edition
Second edition.
Notes
Revised edition of: A history of surgery / Harold Ellis. 2001.
Contents
Surgery in prehistoric times -- The early years of written history : Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India -- Surgery in ancient Greece and Rome -- The Dark Ages and the Renaissance -- The age of the surgeon-anatomist, part 1 : from the mid 16th century to the end of the 17th century -- The age of the surgeon-anatomist, part 2 : from the beginning of the 18th century to the mid 19th century -- The advent of anaesthesia and antisepsis -- The birth of modern surgery : from Lister to the 20th century -- The surgery of warfare -- Orthopaedic surgery -- Breast tumours -- Cutting for the stone -- Thyroid and parathyroid -- Thoracic and vascular surgery -- Organ transplantation -- Envoi : today and tomorrow.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (page xiii) and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineV.ALOpen shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780521896238
- 0521896231
- 9780521720335
- 0521720338