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By Raymond Hurt, with contributions by J.E.S. Barry, A.P. Adams, and P.R. Fleming. 514 pp., illustrated. New York, Parthenon, 1996. $98. ISBN 1-85070-681-6.

Raymond Hurt has produced a remarkably thorough narrative history of thoracic surgery and the surgeons and physicians who made it into the special field that it is.

After due prefatory credits and a foreword by Denton Cooley, the story begins with Imhotep and unfolds at a rapid pace, hitting the high points of Greek, Roman, and Arabic medicine. The pace slows with the discussion of Galen (circa a.d. 130-200) and the narrative accounts of the Renaissance physicians who encountered problems in the chest that were outside the domain of the barber surgeons. With the coming of the 19th century, the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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