The_Invention_of_Surgery
treated to a painless and efficient exposition. Later, Liston performed an excision of the nail of the great toe, a surprisingly ...
inhalers resumed their vocation. Immediately an unwonted hilarity seized the party—they became brightened, very happy, and very ...
that wartime medicine has pitted medical greats against each other, indirect combatants serving their fellow men. It is a wonder ...
and organ systems. This makes anesthesia possible, which makes surgery real. On the west side of the Boston Public Garden (the s ...
TEN Elective Surgery Almost every patient mentions how cold it is in the operating room. We keep the room around 60° F, in part ...
so many shoulder and elbow operations. That day, I decided to be an orthopedic surgeon and never wavered in that pursuit. Follow ...
clothes. She snaps latex gloves over my freshly doused hands. From behind me a nurse ties my gown and I twist 360 degrees to coc ...
else in the world exists, no other thoughts, no realities, no controversies. Nothing funny, nothing sad, nothing interesting. I’ ...
were being invented. Every great surgeon requires an innate sense of three-dimensional space buttressed by years of anatomic lea ...
reversal of anesthesia. However, there is a disarming sentiment most patients have in the first minutes of wakefulness: loss of ...
City, where he oversaw the building of the United States’ first pathology laboratory, at Bellevue Hospital. This new discipline ...
community. The two most popular instructors were Halsted and his good friend William Welch, two years the surgeon’s senior. The ...
has never changed so dramatically in any twenty-year period; in those two decades, anesthesia was discovered and antiseptic surg ...
surgical universe, where he pioneered surgical techniques, tutored numerus graduates from Europe and America, refined his versio ...
continuous tube that averages about thirty feet in humans. It is comprised of the esophagus, stomach, small intestine (duodenum, ...
fewer than “ten thousand Americans took some kind of formal medical study at Vienna between 1870 and 1914.”^10 They were coming ...
antimalarial, antibacterial, and vasodilatory, among others. Scientists believe these interactions (which are often toxic or let ...
of the solution into one of the frog’s protruding eyes. After waiting a few seconds, Koller touched the eye, testing the reflex. ...
nerves are very large, and as they course down the arm or leg, are as big as a pencil before they branch out into tiny tendrils ...
had predicted in the first American paper dealing with cocaine, there is a shadow side to the remedy. In New York, by the fall o ...
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