Schmieding, 277–80
Sprat, Thomas, 52–53
St. Alban’s, Gorhambury, 44–45
stabilization surgery, 289–90
Starry Messenger (Galileo), 41, 42–43
Steindler, Arthur
stem cells, 96
stents in the heart, 233
Streptococci as test bacterium, 128–29
streptomycin, 137–40, 269
substitution surgery, 289
subthalmic nucleus, 317–18
sudden-onset Parkinson’s disease, 308–9
sulfanilamide, 128–29, 214
Sullenberger, Chesley “Sully,” 285
surgeons and surgery
overview, 162–63, 180
abdominal surgery, 167–68
characteristics, 31, 41
doctors’ self-sacrifice, 77
failure to self-report poor outcomes, 220
German form of medical training, 179
individuals were better off not going to, 96–97
subservient to physicians, 29
surgeon’s skills and characteristics, 285
Surgery of the Shoulder (DePalma), 8
surgiomechanics, 258
sutures, absorbable and non-absorbable, 229
Sweden’s implant registry, 220
Swerve, The (Greenblatt), xiv
Sydenham, Thomas, 75, 144–45
Syme, James, 108–9
T
Tabulae Anatomicae (Vesalius), 32
TB. See tuberculosis
Technics and Civilization (Mumford), 27
Teflon fails for joint replacement, 211–12, 271–72, 273
Tegmark, Max, 335
telescopes, 41–42
Temkin, Owsei, xvii
tendon transfers, 286–87