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![The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBNzh0QVE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--f9b97305d1c4056f9d64baa3ee7661cee7b4a853/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Knife%20Man-%20Blood,%20Body%20Snatching,%20and%20the%20Birth%20of%20Modern%20Surgery.jpg)
342 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780307419453
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: 18 December 2007
Description
In an era when bloodletting was considered a cure for everything from colds to smallpox, surgeon John Hunter was a medical innovator, an eccentric, and the person to whom anyone who has ever had surgery probably owes his or her life. In this sensa...
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![The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery by Wendy Moore](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBNzh0QVE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--f9b97305d1c4056f9d64baa3ee7661cee7b4a853/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Knife%20Man-%20Blood,%20Body%20Snatching,%20and%20the%20Birth%20of%20Modern%20Surgery.jpg)
342 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780307419453
Format: Digital
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: 18 December 2007
Description
In an era when bloodletting was considered a cure for everything from colds to smallpox, surgeon John Hunter was a medical innovator, an eccentric, and the person to whom anyone who has ever had surgery probably owes his or her life. In this sensa...