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The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine
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The butchering art : Joseph Lister's quest to transform the grisly world of Victorian medicine

by Lindsey Fitzharris

This history examines the hazardous world of nineteenth-century medicine and the introduction of antiseptic surgery. It focuses on the struggle to combat deadly post-operative infections and modernise clinical practices between 1850 and 1875.

Accession 13550 ISBN 9780241262498 Publisher Allen Lane
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