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The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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Important surgical history of Victorian medicine and Lister's battle to improve post operative outcomes. …more

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Nic
May 19, 2022 rated it really liked it
A nursing colleague recommended this book to me and she was spot on! This is a great read for anyone working in healthcare or interested in healthcare. Fortunately, I had a fantastic medical history course in college, so this wasn't completely surprising information. Also, I took a haunted history tour of my campus and learned strange and creepy things which happened in my own alma mater's medical school. For example, the way that corpses were stored, in the anatomy/dissection classrooms in orde ...more
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