Amesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country s most famous museum of medical oddities
Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia, performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mutter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the mid-nineteenth century.
Although he died at just forty-eight, Mutter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as...