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By Harold Ellis. 235 pp., illustrated. London, Royal Society of Medicine Press, 1994. £20. ISBN 1-85315-222-6.

Surgical Case-Histories from the Past, a compilation of historical case notes and narratives from a variety of sources with introductions by Harold Ellis, contains four parts, entitled "Major Advances," "The Surgeon at War," "Surgical Emergencies and Disasters," and "The Surgeon at Work." Some of the material has been published previously in the periodical literature.

The first part of the book — "Major Advances" — contains Ephraim McDowell's description of the first successful ovariotomy in 1809, John Collins Warren's report on operations using ether anesthesia in 1846, Joseph Lister's case reports of the first antiseptic operations (1867), Jules Péan on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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