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History of Surgery, The Illustrated
by Knut Haeger
Bell Publishing Company, New York, 1988, 288pp, HC.
[Asia BC, Europe, BC-16C; also Europe, 17-20C]

Chapters
1. The beginnings of medicine
2. The rise of Western surgery
3. Medieval medicine
4. Surgery in the Renaissance
5. Medicine becomes a science
6. The surgeons of the Enlightenment
7. Surgery in the Age of Revolutions
8. The human face of surgery
9. The triumph of complex operations
10. The world of modern surgery