A Century of Surgery

Covers surgical history from the 1880's to the 1970's in the areas of anesthesia, cardiovascular surgery, general surgery, the genito-urinary surgery, gynecology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, radiology, antisepsis and asepsis, infection and antibiotics, wounds adn wound healing, techniques of surgery, burns, shock, military suregery, fluid balance and metabolism, blood and blood transfusion, transplantation and immunology, oncology, education and training, history of medicine, socio-economic problems.