Lindsey Fitzharris
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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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2017
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“The best that can be said about Victorian hospitals is that they were a slight improvement over their Georgian predecessors. That’s hardly a ringing endorsement when one considers that a hospital’s “Chief Bug-Catcher”—whose job it was to rid the mattresses of lice—was paid more than its surgeons.”
― The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
― The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
“Remarkably, Bichat was able to describe and name twenty-one membranes in the human body, including connective, muscle, and nerve tissue, before he died accidentally in 1802 after falling down the steps of his own hospital.”
― The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
― The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
“The adoption of Lister’s antiseptic system was the most prominent outward sign of the medical community’s acceptance of a germ theory, and it marked the epochal moment when medicine and science merged.”
― The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
― The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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