The_Invention_of_Surgery
the twenty-four-year-old physician, but unlike John Hughes Bennett, the Scottish physician who first described the disease four ...
entered the most productive epoch of his life. He tackled the subjects of inflammation, cancer, kidney disease, and the anatomy ...
obeying the chemical messages from surrounding cells, committing themselves along a particular cell line, thereby forming an adv ...
used by the universe to absorb nutrients, exchange energy, build tissue, respond to stress, store information, serve as communic ...
causing great pain, but for conditions that are inconvenient, annoying, or even just aesthetically unpleasing. ...
SEVEN Germs “Dans les champs de l’observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.” —Louis Pasteur, 1854 With only a ...
flying or driving to that hospital to procure the organs. Otherwise, the intern’s role on the transplant team is to manage the p ...
another service? Why not general surgery?” Paul retorts, a little frustrated, “I dunno, maybe they thought you guys would do a b ...
When our team meets, we realize that we are short-staffed for the day. Room 8, the simple procedure room, is available this afte ...
bodies, walling off intruders into a stalemate chamber that can last for years, even decades. I scrape the last of the material ...
reforming Austria’s legal, educational, and medical systems. As one of the great Enlightenment monarchs of the 18th century, Jos ...
physicians themselves. Childbirth had only ever been commandeered by midwives, but obstetrics arose as a specialty, challenging ...
Ignác Semmelweis was always an outsider. Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1818, to a grocer, he would always speak German with a Bu ...
infection and lethal sepsis. Death was an excruciating certainty and an almost welcome respite from the ravages of fever. Semmel ...
knife. With little delay, Kolletschka became ill, eventually succumbing to a massive infection. His body was dissected by his gr ...
Semmelweis reasoned that chloride’s effectiveness was the destruction of the particles themselves. Within two months of Kolletsc ...
meeting him at the Vienna train station and asking him to visit a private sanitarium. They eventually took Semmelweis to a state ...
Joseph Lister was born in 1827 to Society of Friends (Quaker) parents in a village to the east of London. As was considered char ...
topic.^15 Steve Jobs presenting a speech on the future of personal computers and portable music machines in college could not be ...
Padua, Bologna, and Vienna, visiting the great thinkers and leading hospitals, before settling back in Edinburgh, microscope at ...
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