“second intention,” wound healing by
Selzer, Richard
Semmelweis, Ignaz
sepsis; prevention of, see antiseptic system
septicemia
Sergeant, William
sewers, open
sexually transmitted diseases, see venereal diseases
Shandwick Place (Edinburgh)
Sharpey, William
shock
simple fractures
Simpson, James Y.
Sims, James Marion
sinus forceps
smallpox
Smirke, Robert
Smith, David
Smithfield (London)
Smithfield Market
Snow, John
Society of Friends, see Quakers
Sorbonne (Paris)
South, John Flint
Spallanzani, Lazzaro
Spectator, The
Spence, James
Spencer, Herbert
spontaneous generation doctrine
Squire, William
streptococcus bacteria
strokes
strychnine
stumps
Sullivan, Jeremiah
Sullivan, Julia
suppuration; acupressure claimed to prevent; infective; microscopic examination of; putrid; treatments to avert, see antiseptics
surgeon-apothecaries
surgical instruments; see also knives, surgical
sutures; see also ligatures
Syme, Anne Willis
Syme, James; adversarial personality of; antiseptic procedures supported by; correspondence of Lister and; death of; Edinburgh residence of; Lister’s marriage to daughter of; mentorship of Lister by; private hospital founded by; Sharpey’s friendship with; stroke suffered by; surgical techniques of; teaching hospitals advocated by
Syme, Jemima Burn
Syme, Lucy
syphilis
Szent-Györgyi, Albert
teaching hospitals; see also names of specific hospitals
tenaculum
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
tetanus
thermodynamics, laws of
Thames
Thompson, Allen
Thompson, Henry
Thurston, Lucy
Times (London)
tooth extraction
Torquay (England)
Tothill Fields (London)
Tottenham (England)
tourniquets
toxic substances; medicinal uses of
Travers, Benjamin
tuberculosis; pulmonary; spinal
tumors, operations to remove; breast; jawbone; ovarian; scrotal
Tyndall, John
typhoid fever
typhus
ulcers; gangrenous; syphilitic
United States of America; Lister in
University College Hospital; dissections at; first use of ether at; incurable patients, policy regarding; intestinal surgery at; spread of infections at
University College London (UCL); curriculum at; dissection room at; Lister applies for chair of systematic surgery at; Lister’s arrival at; microscopes at; operating theater of; Sharpey as Lister’s mentor at; size of
University of Edinburgh; Crimean War volunteers from; Lister’s professorship at; Sharpey recommends Lister to Syme at; Syme appointed chair of clinical surgery at
Upton (England)
urine, analysis of
Van Buren, William
Velpeau, Alfred Armand
venereal diseases; see also syphilis
Vibrio cholerae bacteria
Victoria, Queen
Victorian period; medicine in
Vienna; General Hospital
vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature)
vitamin C deficiency
vivisection
Volkmann, Richard von
Wakley, James G.
Wales
Walsh, Thomas
Walshe, Walter H.
“water dressings”
Waterloo, Battle of
Watson, Patrick Heron
Wells, Thomas Spencer
Westminster Abbey
Wilde, William
Wiley, Clarence C.
Wood, John
working conditions, accidents and illnesses caused by
Wrench, Guy Theodore
Year-Book of Medicine, Surgery, and Their Allied Sciences
yellow fever
zinc chloride
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lindsey Fitzharris received her PhD in the history of science and medicine from the University of Oxford. She is the creator of the popular website The Chirurgeon’s Apprentice, and writer and presenter of the YouTube series Under the Knife. She has written for The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Lancet, and New Scientist. Lindsey lives in the English countryside with her husband, Adrian Teal, and their two cats. Visit her website at drlindseyfitzharris.com, follow her on Twitter at @DrLindseyFitz, and find her on Instagram at @drlindseyfitzharris. Or sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
PROLOGUE: THE AGE OF AGONY
1. THROUGH THE LENS
2. HOUSES OF DEATH
3. THE SUTURED GUT
4. THE ALTAR OF SCIENCE
5. THE NAPOLEON OF SURGERY
6. THE FROG’S LEGS
7. CLEANLINESS AND COLD WATER
8. THEY’RE ALL DEAD
9. THE STORM
10. THE GLASS GARDEN
11. THE QUEEN’S ABSCESS
EPILOGUE: THE DARK CURTAIN, RAISED
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
A Note About the Author
Copyright
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An excerpt from The Butchering Art originally appeared, in slightly different form, in Scientific American
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Identifiers: LCCN 2016059275 | ISBN 9780374117290 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780374715489 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827–1912. | Surgeons—Great Britain—Biography. | Surgery—Great Britain—History—19th century.
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FRONTISPIECE: Artist/maker unknown. After Thomas Eakins, The Agnew Clinic. c. 1889. Photogravure.
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