Download or read book The European Discovery of American Surgery written by and published by . This book was released on 2024-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first of two that, together, are primarily a collection of twenty-six articles written by European surgeons who visited America prior to the First World War. Volume 1 provides background about nineteenth-century European-American surgical relationships and the massive European immigration to America that included some influential surgeons. This is followed by reports from nine surgeons who visited 1901-1907, translated into English, each with details about the original article, a brief author biography, and numerous annotations to clarify unfamiliar persons or concepts.Volume 2 adds reports from fourteen European surgeons who visited 1908-1913, with similar source information, biographies, and annotations. Other surgical and medical visitors to America during this time are briefly discussed. Finally, the April 1914 International Surgical Society Congress in New York is described, followed by reports from three more surgeons who attended the Congress and participated in a tour of American surgical centers that followed it.
Download or read book The European Discovery of American Surgery written by and published by . This book was released on 2024-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the second of two that, together, are primarily a collection of twenty-six articles written by European surgeons who visited America prior to the First World War. Volume 1 provides background about nineteenth-century European-American surgical relationships and the massive European immigration to America that included some influential surgeons. This is followed by reports from nine surgeons who visited 1901-1907, translated into English, each with details about the original article, a brief author biography, and numerous annotations to clarify unfamiliar persons or concepts. Volume 2 adds reports from fourteen European surgeons who visited 1908-1913, with similar source information, biographies, and annotations. Other surgical and medical visitors to America during this time are briefly discussed. Finally, the April 1914 International Surgical Society Congress in New York is described, followed by reports from three more surgeons who attended the Congress and participated in a tour of American surgical centers that followed it.
Download or read book American Surgery written by Ira M. Rutkow and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1998 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a world-renowned historian of surgery, this volume is a masterful textual and pictorial history of the evolution of American surgery. Dr. Rutkow draws on his experience as a surgeon and a historian to provide an enlightening account of the development of surgery in the context of American social, economic, and political history. He also chronicles the complete histories of the surgical specialties. Interspersed with the narrative is an extraordinary collection of archival photographs and drawings, many of which have never before been published. More than 1,000 biographies of pioneering surgeons are deftly woven into the narrative.
Download or read book The Influence of American surgery on Europe written by Carl Beck and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Influence of American Surgery on Europe written by Carl Beck and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Elements of Surgery written by John Syng Dorsey and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Empire of the Scalpel written by Ira Rutkow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a renowned surgeon and historian with five decades of experience comes a remarkable history of surgery's development--spanning the Stone Age to the present day--blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling. There are not many events in life that can be as simultaneously life-frightening and life-saving as a surgical operation. Yet, in America, tens-of-millions of major surgical procedures are performed annually but few of us pause to consider the magnitude of these figures because we have such inherent confidence in surgeons. And, despite passionate debates about healthcare and the endless fascination with surgical procedures, most of us have no idea how surgeons came to be because the story of surgery has never been fully told. Now, Empire of the Scalpel elegantly reveals the fascinating history of surgery's evolution from its earliest roots in Europe through its rise to scientific and social dominance in the United States. From the 16th-century saga of Andreas Vesalius and his crusade to accurately describe human anatomy while appeasing the conservative clergy who clamored for his burning at the stake, to the hard-to-believe story of late-19th century surgeons' apathy to Joseph Lister's innovation of antisepsis and how this indifference led to thousands of unnecessary surgical deaths, Empire of the Scalpel is both a global history and a uniquely American tale. You'll discover how in the 20th century the US achieved surgical world supremacy heralded by the Nobel Prize-winning, seemingly impossible feat of transplanting a kidney and how the heart-lung machine was developed, along with much more. Today, the list of possible operations is almost infinite--from knee and hip replacement to heart bypass and transplants to fat reduction and rhinoplasty--and Rutkow draws on his five-decade career to show us how we got here. Authoritative, captivating, and comprehensive, Empire of the Scalpel portrays the evolution of surgery in all its dramatic and life-enhancing complexity and shows that its history is truly one awe-inspiring triumph after another.
Download or read book Genius on the Edge written by Gerald Imber and published by Kaplan Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genius on the Edge introduces the public to the man who revolutionized modern surgery at the same time it weaves a compelling biography with a fascinating tour of American medicine at the turn of the 19th century. Coming of age in the wake of the Civil War, William Stewart Halsted became a doctor in an era when surgery was a dangerous game of chance. By the time of his death in 1922, Halsted had transformed surgery and had pioneered techniques and procedures that are routine in today's operating rooms. But this came at a high price-drug addiction and alienation from his friends and family. His enormous professional accomplishments, eccentric personal behavior, and lifetime of drug addiction defy conventional wisdom. In the first comprehensive portrait of this complex and indisputably brilliant man, author Gerald Imber-a renowned plastic surgeon himself-takes readers to the upper echelons of society in New York City and Baltimore, blending tales of Gilded Age decadence with captivating accounts from the front lines of medical discovery. Combining the historical atmosphere of The Alienist with an unconventional hero, Genius on the Edge celebrates one of history's most daring doctors. Book jacket.
Download or read book Gifted Hands written by Seymour I. Schwartz and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping history of American surgical practice, a renowned surgeon describes how surgery in this country has advanced from the comparatively crude practices of pioneering physicians in the colonial era to its current level of preeminence.
Download or read book The Influcence of American Surgery on Europe written by Carl Beck and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plain Concise Practical Remarks on the Treatment of Wounds and Fractures written by John Jones and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under the Knife written by Arnold van de Laar and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This is history with a surgeon's touch: deft, incisive and sometimes excruciatingly bloody' The Sunday Times 'Utterly eccentric and riveting' Mail on Sunday 'Eye-opening and, frequently, eye-watering . . . a book that invites readers to peer up the bottoms of kings, into the souls of rock stars and down the ear canals of astronauts' The Daily Telegraph How did a decision made in the operating theatre spark hundreds of conspiracy theories about JFK? How did a backstage joke prove fatal to world-famous escape artist Harry Houdini? How did Queen Victoria change the course of surgical history? Through dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, surgeon Arnold van de Laar uses his experience and expertise to tell an incisive history of the past, present and future of surgery. From the dark centuries of bloodletting and of amputations without anaesthetic to today's sterile, high-tech operating theatres, Under the Knife is both a rich cultural history, and a modern anatomy class for us all.
Download or read book Surgery written by Ira M. Rutkow and published by Mosby Incorporated. This book was released on 1993 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book covers the span of years from the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt to the appearance of the surgical specialities in the first half of the 20th century.
Download or read book The Influence of American Surgery on Europe Vol 5 Classic Reprint written by Carl Beck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Influence of American Surgery on Europe, Vol. 5 And while Germany will probably keep its leading position as far as the theoretical branches of medicine are concerned, the United States will become authoritative in practice. Asepsis, the daughter of antisepsis, while the result of the research of Pasteur, Lister and Koch, was methodically introduced into practice by von Bergmann. But the greatest perfection of the new method has an American trademark. Nowhere are aseptic technics so commonly practiced and so perfect as in the surgical strongholds of the United States. The natural cleanliness, so characteristic of American habits, has of course been a most favorable element for. The introduction and ap preciation of aseptic principles. The American nation is acknowledged all over the world as the cleanest. It is therefore not astonishing that asepsis has been more highly appreciated here than anywhere else, and it is easy to understand that this country is destined more than any other nation to develop asepsis to its fullest perfection. It is safe to say that in many respects the United States have ful filled a noble mission in this direction for many years, a task not to be underestimated. There are a number of signs indicating that this characteristic sense for cleanliness has, like some other American virtues, influenced other countries indirectly. What a change, for instance, is observed in immigrants who come from semibarbarous districts, where even an annual bath is regarded as an extravagant and foolish luxury. They sometimes carry all imaginable varieties of mother earth, especially ou those surfaces of the body not covered by clothing. When they scratch themselves for obvious reasons they become self-inoculated with the germs harbored in their well culti vated filth. As bacteriological investigations prove, all sorts of pus producing germs are found in their skin; so it is only too natural that the skin surface of such individuals is covered with boils and swollen glands. The example of their new fellow citizens soon teaches them a good lesson, and in the second generation the sense of cleanliness is generally very well developed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The European discovery of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe written by Mary Lindemann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and accessible introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800.
Download or read book A History of Plastic Surgery written by Paolo Santoni-Rugiu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-06-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the history of plastic surgery from the remarkable achievements of such ancient civilizations as India and Egypt up to the revolutionary techniques developed at the end of the Middle Age, the Renaissance and beyond. Coverage details how the knowledge of wound healing has changed and influenced plastic surgery, describes the development of various surgical reconstructive procedures and details the birth of Cosmetic Surgery.
