The_Invention_of_Surgery

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The Invention of Surgery A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution DAVID SCHNEIDER, MD ...

For my father, J. E. Schneider, DVM 1932– ...

Contents Preface Introduction ONE: Dilemma TWO: Paper, Prophet, and Printing Press THREE: Vesalius and De Humani Corporis Fabric ...

NINETEEN: Calculating the Impact TWENTY: Brain Implants TWENTY-ONE: Cyborg Future and Homo Electrus Acknowledgments Endnotes Ind ...

Preface “Dr. Schneider, this is Karen Lambert and I’m calling from Belize. You fixed my shoulder a few years ago and I’m dealing ...

Stunned, I tried recalibrating, sensing the need to educate Mark about the grave consequences he was facing. I couldn’t break th ...

Implant surgery, such as joint replacement, cardiac stent placement, lens surgery, and neurosurgical shunts, only became possibl ...

Introduction Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult. The physician must n ...

My job this morning is to change the leeches on Gabriel’s fingers. You read that right. It sounds positively medieval, but there ...

With a little more force, I am finally able to pluck the little vampire off a finger and the assembly groans in appreciation, “Y ...

time.^2 Figures like Leonardo da Vinci, Christopher Columbus, and Johannes Gutenberg upended the status quo, much like Steve Job ...

Colossus of Rhodes or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. After disappearing for 1,500 years, it was discovered in 1417 by an Italia ...

the sixty pieces of writing that are attributed to him and his followers (though by some estimates, almost half are falsely attr ...

nourishment of the body, i.e., of its tissues, which consequently owe their existence to the humors. The [Aristotelian] elements ...

cavity, home to the lungs and heart, pulmonic fluid would be discovered surrounding the lungs and filling the lobes with frothy ...

therefore the ancient art of trying to achieve a balance in humors, and explains why so many patients were bled (often, to death ...

Highly prolific, “his preserved works alone would fill about a dozen volumes of approximately one thousand pages each.”^13 If Ar ...

Galen became a true pioneer when he performed anatomic experimentation. Tragically, it involved vivisection, but instead of conj ...

Greek East preserved its ancient heritage. Justinian even succeeded in reconquering Italy, Africa, and part of Spain, and reunit ...