A history of surgery: From superstition to science.

摘要

Today, surgical procedures are so advanced and precise that we can fix the heart of a fetus, separate conjoined twins, replace organs, attach limbs, even restore a face. But it took millennia to reach this stage. In Surgery Over the Centuries, Dr. Zachary Friedenberg, a professor of orthopedic surgery at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, offers a fascinating introduction to some of the individuals, practices and developments from the Neolithic Age to 1800 AD that paved the way for 21st-century microsurgery.