A history of surgery
By: Harold Ellis.
Publisher: Greenwich Medical Media
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Surgery -- history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xi) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Surgery in prehistoric times; title: Ch. 2. The early years of written history - Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India; title: Ch. 3. Surgery in ancient Greece and Rome; title: Ch. 4. The Dark Ages and the Renaissance; title: Ch. 5. The age of the surgeon-anatomist: part 1 - from the mid 16th to the end of the 17th century; title: Ch. 6. The age of the surgeon-anatomist: part 2 - from the beginning of the 18th century to the mid 19th century; title: Ch. 7. The advent of anaesthesia and antisepsis; title: Ch. 8. Birth of modern surgery - from Lister to the first World War; title: Ch. 9. The surgery of warfare; title: Ch. 10. Orthopaedic surgery; title: Ch. 11. Breast tumours; title: Ch. 12. Cutting for the stone; title: Ch. 13. Thyroid and parathyroid; title: Ch. 14. Thoracic and vascular surgery; title: Ch. 15. Organ transplantation; title: Ch. 16. Envoi - today and tomorrow.