Operations That Made History 2e

ISBN-13: 9780367001551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 156 str.

Harold Ellis

Opis

In surgery, as in all fields of human activity, history is forgotten at our peril. Operations that made History gives its readers a unique insightinto a remarkable specialty, using the lessons of history to instruct as well as amuse.

Spis treści

Introduction.  The First Ovariotomy.  Ligation of the Abdominal Aorta. Ruptured Ectopic Pregnancy.  The First Successful Gastrectomy.  Splenectomy for Rupture of the Spleen. Renal Transplantation."  I Dressed the Wound and God Healed Him".  The Birth of Anaesthesia.  The Compound Fracture.  Electrosurgery.  Queen Caroline's Umbilical Hernia.  Lord Nelson's Amputation.  The Sebaceous Cyst of George IV.  Henry Thompson and Two Royal Bladder stones.  The Appendiceal Abscess of Edward VII.  The Empyema of George V.  The Pneumonectomy of George VI.  Envoi.