Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles & Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery by Richard Barnett

Crucial Interventions: An Illustrated Treatise on the Principles & Practice of Nineteenth-Century Surgery

Richard Barnett

256 pages 2015

3 editions

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The nineteenth century saw major advances in the practice of surgery. In 1750, the anatomist John Hunter described it as “a humiliating spectacle of the futility of science”; yet, over the next 150 years the feared, practical men of medicine benef...

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