Περιγραφή
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, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Surgery is the only serious choice for a reader wanting a lively and informative single-volume introduction to surgical history.
Written in a lively and accessible style that will bring the subject alive for both professional and lay readers
Author is one of the UK’s most eminent surgeons, with a distinguished career as an academician and teacher, and the author of 24 books
Profusely illustrated in colour; many unique and powerful illustrations
Offers a global view of the fascinating history of surgical intervention, and the benefit these have given to humanity
