- Surgery, Surgeons, Biography, History
286 pages : 24 cm
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and resolved.
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- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Lindsey Fitzharris
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 286
- Publisher
- Allen Lane, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780374537968
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First sentence
“On the afternoon of December 21, 1846, hundreds of men crowded into the operating theater at London's University College Hospital, where the city's most renowned surgeon was preparing to enthrall them with a mid-thigh amputation.”
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