The evolution of surgery in the United States

by Whipple, Allen Oldfather, 1881-1963,

Format: Print Book 1963
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CLP - Main Library Second Floor - Closed Reference (Please ask for assistance) RD27.3.U6 W495 1963x
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Collection  Second Floor - Closed Reference (Please ask for assistance)
 
Call Number  RD27.3.U6 W495 1963x
 
 
Contents
The early surgery of the colonists
Foreign trained American doctors : their role in founding medical schools
The first medical schools in this country : their faculties
The advent of anesthesia
The advent of the control of infection
The period of reorganization
Elimination of the incompetent medical schools in the United States
The first sixty years of the twentieth century
The spread of residency training
The surgeons of the 1900-1920 period
Shock
The care of the injured patient
Surgery of the thorax
Surgery of the cardiovascular system
Surgery of the breast
Surgery of the esophagus and the gastrointestinal tract
Surgery of the liver
Surgery of the pancreas
Surgery of the spleen
Genito-urinary surgery
Surgery of the endocrine glands
Plastic surgery
The American surgeon today.

Additional Information
Subjects Surgery -- United States -- History.
Publisher Springfield, Illinois :Charles C. Thomas, Publisher,1963
Language English
Description xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Notes Includes bibliographical references (page 171) and indexes.
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