The Cambridge illustrated history of surgery
By: Harold Ellis.
Contributors: Ellis, Harold, 1926-
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780521896238; 9780521735776; 9780521720335
Subjects: Surgery -- History; Surgery -- history
Other titles: 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.
Notes: Rev. ed of: A history of surgery / Harold Ellis. 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Surgery in prehistoric times; title: The early years of written history : Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and India; title: Surgery in ancient Greece and Rome; title: The Dark Ages and the Renaissance; title: The age of the surgeon-anatomist : from the mid 16th century to the end of the 17th century; title: The age of the surgeon-anatomis : from the beginning of the 18th century to the mid 19th century; title: The advent of anaesthesia and antisepsis; title: The birth of modern surgery from Lister to the 20th century; title: The surgery of warfare; title: Orthopaedic surgery; title: Breast tumours; title: Cutting for the stone; title: Thyroid and parathyroid; title: Thoracic and vascular surgery; title: Organ transplantation; title: Envoi : today and tomorrow.