Scalpels, stitches + scars : a history of surgery
Townsend, John, 1955-2005
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Read this history of surgery to find out how scalpels, stitches and scars are a part of medical history. Learn why barbers tried to make people bleed and which group of people used giant ants to seal up wounds. Discover how people in ancient times fixed wounds.
Main title:
Scalpels, stitches + scars : a history of surgery / John Townsend.
Author:
Townsend, John, 1955-, author
Imprint:
Oxford : Raintree, 2005.
Collation:
56 pages : illustrations (colour), portraits ; 25 cm.
Series:
Raintree freestyle; Painful history of medicine
Notes:
Formerly CIP.
Audience:
syl; sym
ISBN:
18444375079781844437504
Dewey class:
617610617.09
Local class:
617617.09610617.09 TOW
Language:
English
Index terms:
History.surgerywarsmedicineMedicineHistoryHealth
BRN:
236577
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