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The New England journal of medicine, 2012-05, Vol.366 (18), p.1716-1723
Ort / Verlag
Waltham, MA: Massachusetts Medical Society
Erscheinungsjahr
2012
Quelle
MEDLINE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
This review article traces the history and progress of surgery over the past two centuries, during which the profession evolved from rapidly performed, rudimentary, and often unsuccessful procedures to bold reconstruction, intricate microsurgery, transplantation, and more.
Surgery is a profession defined by its authority to cure by means of bodily invasion. The brutality and risks of opening a living person's body have long been apparent, the benefits only slowly and haltingly worked out. Nonetheless, over the past two centuries, surgery has become radically more effective, and its violence substantially reduced — changes that have proved central to the development of mankind's abilities to heal the sick.
Surgery before the Advent of Anesthesia
The first volume of the
New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery, and the Collateral Branches of Science,
published in 1812, gives a sense . . .