With The Butchering Art, Fitzharris explores the intersection of Lister's life, the development of antiseptic surgery, and the horrors of the wards with an almost surgical precision (Nicola Davis, 'Book of the Day' Observer) The Butchering Art has its share of resplendent gore (Jennifer Senior New York Times) From out of this hellish vision, Lister emerges as the cool, modern, scientific saviour to whom we should all give thanks (Wendy Moore Guardian)Ītmospheric. has an eye for morbid detail, visceral imagery and comic potential. A fascinating account (Nick Rennison Daily Mail) By making the audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection - and could be treated with antiseptics - he changed the history of medicine forever., With a novelist's eye for detail, Fitzharris brilliantly conjures up the grisly world of Victorian surgery, revealing how one of Britain's greatest medical minds finally brought centuries of savagery, sawing and gangrene to an end. At a time when surgery couldn't have been more dangerous, an unlikely figure stepped forward: Joseph Lister, a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon.
While the discovery of anaesthesia somewhat lessened the misery for patients, ironically it led to more deaths, as surgeons took greater risks., In squalid, overcrowded hospitals, doctors remained baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. This was an era when a broken leg could lead to amputation, when surgeons often lacked university degrees, and were still known to ransack cemeteries to find cadavers. From out of this hellish vision, Lister emerges as the cool, modern, scientific saviour to whom we should all give thanks' Wendy Moore, GuardianThe story of a visionary British surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world - the safest time to be alive in human historyIn The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know today., Victorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitzharris reminds us, since half of those who underwent surgery didn't survive the experience. DAILY MAIL, GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017'Gloriously pulsating.
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