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This book reveals the shocking world of 19th century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. The author conjures up early operating theaters--no place for the squeamish--and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed and brute strength. Persistent infections after surgery kept mortality rates stubbornly high, until a young, melancholy, Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister solved the deadly riddle of germs and changed...
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