Год выпуска: 2003 Автор: Thomas Dormandy Издательство: Страниц: 576 ISBN: 9780470863213
Описание
In the early eighteenth century admission to hospital was often a death sentence and operations little more than excruciating butchery. Thomas Dormandy recounts in vivid detail the lives of four men who helped to change this and who created modern medicine and surgery. They are: Rene Laennec (1781– 1826) a French physician, who invented the stethoscope and virtually created modern physical diagnosis. He worked tirelessly to give his patients not only health but also dignity and hope until he himself succumbed to the greatest killer of his age, tuberculosis. Ignac Semmelweis (1818– 1865) a brilliant but volatile Hungarian, who discovered why so many young women died in agony following childbirth. He himself died forsaken by all in a mental hospital. Joseph Lister (1827– 1912) a British surgeon, who recognised the cause of ‘hospital sepsis’ and devised a way to combat it. It opened the way to modern surgery. A great Victorian, he was...
