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Dr. Mutter's Marvels

Door Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Dr. Mutter's Marvels
CategorieAlgemeen wetenschap
Boeknummer#360268
TitelDr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine
AuteurO'Keefe Aptowicz, Cristin
BoektypePaperback
UitgeverijNew York, NY : Avery
Jaar van uitgave2015
ISBN101592409253
ISBN139781592409259
TaalEngels
BeschrijvingPaperback, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
SamenvattingA mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia, performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools—or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the mid-nineteenth century. Although he died at just forty-eight, Mütter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools, and a compassion-based vision for helping the severely deformed, which clashed spectacularly with the sentiments of his time. Brilliant, outspoken, and brazenly handsome, Mütter was flamboyant in every aspect of his life. He wore pink silk suits to perform surgery, added an umlaut to his last name just because he could, and amassed an immense collection of medical oddities that would later form the basis of Philadelphia’s renowned Mütter Museum.
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