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This volume illustrates aspects of the history of surgery from techniques such as trepanning, used by primitive man, through some of the gruesome but occasionally effective methods employed by the ancient civilizations, the increasing sophisticated techniques of the Greeks and Romans, via the Dark Ages, the Renaissance, the early pioneers of anaesthesia and antisepsis (Morton, Lister and Pasteur), the impact of modern warfare on the development of surgical procedures right up to the present day, finishing with an insight into the future of surgery in the next millennium.
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