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The Cambridge Illustrated History of Surgery

Paperback • 2008 • English

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Surgery

By Harold Ellis

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About the book

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 an...Show more

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9780521720335

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

The Cambridge Illustrated History of Surgery

Format

Paperback

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