From the pioneering work of Galen on Roman gladiators to the latest advances in plastic surgery, this five-part series illustrates the evolution of surgical techniques—a story as much of mishaps and ...

Democratic, divine and heroic: the history and historiography of surgery / Christopher Lawrence -- Seventeenth-century English surgery: the casebook of Joseph Binns / Lucinda McCray Beier -- Surgery ...

Researchers interviewed 24 patients who underwent either emergency or elective gallbladder removal surgery about their knowledge of gallstone disease symptoms before they sought medical care, their ...