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The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine / Lindsey Fitzharris.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374117290
- Physical Description: 286 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-266) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue : the age of agony -- Through the lens -- Houses of death -- The sutured gut -- The altar of science -- The Napoleon of surgery -- The frog's legs -- Cleanliness and cold water -- They're all dead -- The storm -- The glass garden -- The queen's abscess -- Epilogue : the dark curtain, raised. |
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| Genre: | Biography. Biographies. Biography. History. Biographies. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| East Grand Forks Campbell Library | 617.092 FITZHARRIS (Text) | 513738 | Non-Fiction | Available | - |