Famous Names in the History of Surgery and Orthopaedics. Vol.1 - Bog af Louis Fu - Paperback

Famous Names in the History of Surgery and Orthopaedics. Vol.1 - Louis Fu

In the history of progress of civilisation, surgery precedes internal medicine with regard to accurate observation of lesions and of their results on the human body. Speculations about the four humours, medical constitutions and vital spirits did not concern the minds of the ancient peoples in their attempts to observe and describe the signs of different forms of fractures and dislocations, the danger of wounds in different localities, or the different varieties of tumours. From Antiquity up to the..