The butchering art
by Lindsey Fitzharris · first published 2017
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286 pages : 24 cm
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Just finished The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris. I can’t express strongly enough my gratitude that if I were to need surgery, it wouldn’t be in an operating room where “the screams of those struggling under the knife mingled discordantly…
on “Ask HN: What book(s) had the most impact for you in 2019?” ↗Wonderful article, and reminds me of "The Butchering Art" by Lindsey Fitzharris. Truly eye-opening as to how recently surgery became a viable treatment, and how much determination (and dumb luck) it took to get us here.
on “A Brief History of Surgeons” ↗You might find the book The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine interesting. Crazy to think that the training to become a surgeon led to a lot of people dying from cutting into infected cadavers…
on “Researchers discover new salivary glands in the human head” ↗