Rutkow, Ira M.

Summary: A major contribution to our understanding of America's bloodiest conflict: surgeon and medical historian Rutkow argues that it is impossible to grasp the realities of the Civil War without an awareness of the state of medicine at the time. The use of ether and chloroform remained crude, and they were often unavailable--so many surgical procedures were performed without anesthesia, on the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005

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Rutkow, Ira M.

Summary: "From a renowned surgeon and historian with five decades of experience comes a remarkable history of surgery's development-spanning the Stone Age to the present day-blending meticulous medical studies with lively and skillful storytelling. There are not many events in life that can be as simultaneously life-frightening and life-saving as a surgical operation. Yet, in America, tens-of-millions...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2022

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Rutkow, Ira M.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books/Henry Holt 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GAR