| A History of Surgery: Third Edition Subjects: Humanities; Medicine Dentistry Nursing & Allied Health; Medicine; History; History of Medicine; Medical History; Medical Education; Surgery; 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 and the Renaissance and on to the early pioneers of anaesthesia and antisepsis such as Morton, Lister and Pasteur. Professor Harold Ellis CBE FRCS qualified in Medicine at Oxford in 1948. He was appointed Professor of Surgery at Westminster Medical School, London, in 1962, retiring in 1989. Since then he has taught anatomy. His particular interests were abdominal and breast surgery. He was consultant surgeon to the army and was appointed CBE in 1987. Sala Abdalla BSc MBBS MRCS is a senior Specialist Registrar in General Surgery and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. |