A History of Surgery: Third Edition

by Harold Ellis

Book Overview

Written in a personal and engaging style, this book provides a fascinating and informative introduction to the development of surgery through the ages. It describes the key advances in surgery through the ages, from primitive techniques such as trepanning, some of the gruesome but occasionally successful methods employed by the ancient civilisations, the increasingly sophisticated techniques of the Greeks and Romans, the advances of the Dark Ages...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138617393
• ISBN13: 9781138617391
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.6"