A Perfectly Striking Departure: Surgeons and Surgery at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1912-1980

by Nicholas L. Tilney

Sir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University and arguably the most highly recognized physician in the world at the time was the guest of honor at the opening ceremony for the new Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1913. He remarked that "today I have seen a new and perfectly striking departure in hospital growth, a very important step in medical education, and a great thing for the future development of medicine." During its seven...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881353825
• ISBN13: 9780881353822
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Science History Publications/USA
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.