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The Butchering Art

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A dramatic account of how 19th-century Quaker surgeon Joseph Lister developed an antiseptic method that indelibly changed medicine, describes the practices and risks of early operating theaters as well as the belief systems of Lister's contemporaries.

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The Butchering Art, Lindsey Fitzharris

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2018
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English
Publisher
Allen Lane
Released
2018
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Paperback
Pages
256
ISBN10
0141983388
ISBN13
9780141983387
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A dramatic account of how 19th-century Quaker surgeon Joseph Lister developed an antiseptic method that indelibly changed medicine, describes the practices and risks of early operating theaters as well as the belief systems of Lister's contemporaries.