Fitzharris, Lindsey

Summary: A dramatic account of how 19th-century Quaker surgeon Joseph Lister developed an antiseptic method that indelibly changed medicine, describes the practices and risks of early operating theaters as well as the belief systems of Lister's contemporaries.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017

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