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.

3) Plague-busters!: medicine's battles with history's deadliest diseases

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Fitzharris, Lindsey

Pub. Date

2023.

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150 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Language

English

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"This book delves into several illnesses that have infected humans and affected civilizations. Each chapter explores the history of a specific disease, detailing the symptoms, cures, and medical breakthroughs that it spawned"--

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Lindsey Fitzharris

1) The facemaker: a visionary surgeon's battle to mend the disfigured soldiers of World War I

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

3) Plague-busters!: medicine's battles with history's deadliest diseases