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Editor's foreword | p. 6 |
Preface | p. 7 |
The beginnings of medicine | p. 9 |
Prehistoric and primitive healing | |
Doctors in Mesopotamia | |
Egyptian medicine | |
Chinese surgery | |
Indian surgery | |
The rise of Western surgery | p. 35 |
Traditional Greek surgery | |
The Hippocratic Age | |
The Hellenistic doctors | |
Surgery in Roman times | |
The first nursing care | |
The genius of Galen | |
Aretaios the Cappadocian | |
Byzantine surgery | |
Medieval medicine | p. 69 |
The first hospitals | |
The Arabian doctors | |
The Salerno school | |
Salerno's successors | |
Three great Frenchmen | |
The medieval English | |
Surgery in the Renaissance | p. 95 |
The birth of a new surgery | |
From barbers to Paracelsus | |
The breakthrough of Caesareans | |
The Renaissance's greatest surgeon | |
The specialists of Italy and Germany | |
Medicine becomes a science | p. 117 |
The circulation of blood | |
The new English school | |
Exhaustive treatment | |
The Continental surgeons | |
Blood transfusion makes its entree | |
The new art of childbirth | |
The advent of forceps | |
The surgeons of the Enlightenment | p. 143 |
William Cheselden | |
The art of stone-cutting | |
Pott's four ailments | |
The Hunter brothers | |
Punching the professors | |
Napoleon's surgeon | |
Three Continental pioneers | |
Surgery in the Age of Revolutions | p. 169 |
The great Scots | |
In the wake of Hunter | |
The Continental pathologists | |
Physiology crosses frontiers | |
The conquest of pain | |
Surgery in the United States | |
The human face of surgery | p. 199 |
French expertise | |
Better medical care | |
The dawn of bacteriology | |
The baron of antiseptics | |
Billroth and the Vienna schools | |
Powder-blasted stumps | |
The triumph of complex operations | p. 223 |
The gastrointestinal tract | |
The breasts | |
The renaissance of urology | |
Endocrine surgery | |
The world of modern surgery | p. 245 |
The central nervous system | |
The blood vessels | |
The chest | |
Transplantation and plastic surgery | |
Handmaidens of surgery | |
Other specialties | |
Surgery in the future | |
Recent advances | |
Chronological Table | p. 284 |
Bibliography | p. 286 |
Illustration Sources | p. 287 |
Index | p. 288 |
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