The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
Wendy Moore • Broadway Books • ISBN 9780767916530
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
Wendy Moore • Broadway Books • ISBN-13 9780767916530
ISBN-10 0767916530 • 2005 • 1st Edition
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The vivid, often gruesome portrait of the 18th-century pioneering surgeon and father of modern medicine, John Hunter.When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote his gothic horror story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he based the house of the genial doctor-turned-fiend on the home of John Hunter.
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