The Cambridge Illustrated History of Surgery

by Harold Ellis

Book Overview

Written in a lively and engaging style, by a medical author and teacher of great renown, this book provides a fascinating and informative introduction to the development of surgery through the ages. It illustrates some of the key advances in surgery from primitive techniques such as trepanning, through some of the gruesome but occasionally successful methods employed by the ancient civilisations, the increasingly sophisticated techniques of the Greeks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521720338
• ISBN13: 9780521720335
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.3" x 9.5"