Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine

List of contents

Preface 1. Medicine and Surgery in Early Victorian Britain 2. The Advance of Anaesthesia 3. The Fight for Chloroform 4. Germs, Inflammation and Antisepsis 5. The Fight for Antisepsis 6. The Fight for New Ideas Appendix Index

About the author

A.J. Youngson

Summary

Originally published 1979 The Scientific Revolution in Victorian Medicine looks at the great many factors which interacted in delaying the introduction of anesthesia and 'germ' theory to Victorian surgery.

Product details

• Authors: A.J. Youngson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780367030605
• ISBN: 978-0-367-03060-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine; Routledge Library Editions: History of Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; HISTORY / General, c 1800 to c 1900, History of Medicine, United Kingdom, Great Britain, 1837–1901 (Victorian period)