The Illustrated History of Surgery

New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1990. 7.75" wide by 10" tall. Tiny remainder dot else Very Fine condition in Very Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No creases. No owner's name or bookplate. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Bright, clean, square, tight, and unmarked. With 200 full-color illustrations. Among the illustrations are numerous portraits of prominent surgeons; antique surgical instruments and equipment; graphic depictions of surgical procedures throughout the ages; etc. There are 11 chapters: The beginnings of medicine; The rise of Western surgery; Medieval medicine; Surgery in the Renaissance; Medicine becomes a science; The surgeons of the Enlightenment; Surgery in the Age of Revolutions; The human face of surgery; The triumph of complex operations; The world of modern surgery. Timeline. Bibliography. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "This book traces the background to today's sophisticated surgery across the span of millennia and nations, including prehistoric times when a lucky patient might survive a trepanation; the classical cultures with their often sensible medical methods; the epidemics and crude battlefield operations of the Middle Ages; the pioneering doctors who made possible a bonanza of surgery in the nineteenth century; and the modern world… THE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF SURGERY sets this account of progress in its living context of social events, individual personalities and artistic memorials. The biographies of famous doctors and patients, anecdotes and excerpts from great writings, records of truly bizarre and brilliant, quacks and superstitions...". Second Printing.. Hard Cover. Publisher's black boards/Jacket not priced or clipped. 288pp..