The Butchering Art
Subtitle: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Publisher: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Oct 02, 2018
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780374537968
First sentence: On the afternoon of December 21, 1846, hundreds of men crowded into the operating theater at London's University College Hospital, where the city's most renowned surgeon was preparing to enthrall them with a mid-thigh amputation.
Notes: Source title: The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine