A History of Surgery: Third Edition

Description:

Written in a personal and engaging style, this book provides a fascinating and informative introduction to the development of surgery through the ages. It describes the key advances in surgery through the ages, from primitive techniques such as trepanning, some of the gruesome but occasionally successful methods employed by the ancient civilisations, the increasingly sophisticated techniques of the Greeks and Romans, the advances of the Dark Ages and the Renaissance and on to the early pioneers of anaesthesia and antisepsis such as Morton, Lister and Pasteur.

Table of Contents:

1 Surgery in prehistoric times

Circumcision

Trephination of the skull

Cutting for the stone

2 The early years of written history – Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, China and India

Mesopotamia

Ancient Egypt

China

India

3 Surgery in Ancient Greece and Rome

Ancient Greece

Ancient Rome

4 The Dark Ages and the Renaissance

Southern Italy

Byzantium

Arabian medicine

The Renaissance

The Renaissance of anatomy

5 The age of the surgeon-anatomist: Part 1 – from the mid-16th century to the end of the 17th century

The 16th century

The 17th century

6 The age of the surgeon-anatomist: Part 2 – from the beginning of the 18th century to the mid-19th century

The 18th century

France

Italy

Germany

Britain

America

The first half of the 19th century

Dissection

7 The advent of anaesthesia and antisepsis

Anaesthesia

The development of antiseptic surgery

The development of aseptic surgery

8 The birth of modern surgery – from Lister to the 20th century

Gallstone surgery

Gastric surgery

Surgery of the large intestine

Cancer of the large bowel

Cancer of the colon

Cancer of the rectum

The acute abdomen

Appendicitis

Perforated peptic ulcer

Intussusception

The ruptured spleen

Ruptured ectopic pregnancy

Obstruction due to post-operative adhesions

‘Visceroptosis’

Urological surgery

Prostatectomy

Neurosurgery

Caesarian section

9 The surgery of warfare

The invention of gunpowder

The Napoleonic Wars

The Crimean War

The American Civil War

The Franco-Prussian War

The Boer War

The Russo-Japanese War

The First World War

The Spanish Civil War

The Second World War (1939–1945)

10 Orthopaedic surgery

Fractures and dislocations

Elective orthopaedics

11 Breast tumours

The development of the radical operation

The treatment of the advanced disease

12 Cutting for the stone

Perineal lithotomy

Suprapubic lithotomy

Transurethral lithotrity

13 Thyroid and parathyroid

Surgery

Hypothyroidism

Hyperthyroidism

The parathyroid glands

14 Thoracic and vascular surgery

Lung surgery

Tuberculosis

Resection of the lung

Cardiac surgery

Extracardiac surgery

Constrictive pericarditis

Persistent ductus arteriosus

Coarctation of the aorta

Fallot’s tetralogy

Surgery on the beating heart

Open-heart surgery

Artificial heart valves

The surgery of coronary artery disease

Arterial surgery

Aortic aneurysm surgery

Endovascular surgery

15 Organ transplantation

Skin grafting

Kidney transplantation

Artificial kidneys

The immunological basis of transplantation

Transplantation of other organs

Liver

The heart

Pancreas

Intestine

Multiple organ transplantation

16 Envoi: Today and tomorrow

Index