The word 'surgery' derives from the Greek cheiros, a hand, and ergon, work.
An edition of A history of surgery
(2001)
A history of surgery
by Harold Ellis
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A History of Surgery
January 1, 2002, Greenwich Medical Media
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Table of Contents
Ch. 1. Surgery in prehistoric times
Ch. 2. The early years of written history - Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India
Ch. 3. Surgery in ancient Greece and Rome
Ch. 4. The Dark Ages and the Renaissance
Ch. 5. The age of the surgeon-anatomist: part 1 - from the mid 16th to the end of the 17th century
Ch. 6. The age of the surgeon-anatomist: part 2 - from the beginning of the 18th century to the mid 19th century
Ch. 7. The advent of anaesthesia and antisepsis
Ch. 8. Birth of modern surgery - from Lister to the first World War
Ch. 9. The surgery of warfare
Ch. 10. Orthopaedic surgery
Ch. 11. Breast tumours
Ch. 12. Cutting for the stone
Ch. 13. Thyroid and parathyroid
Ch. 14. Thoracic and vascular surgery
Ch. 15. Organ transplantation
Ch. 16. Envoi - today and tomorrow.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xi) and indexes.
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