The Butchering Art : Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1972) Perhaps the most beloved of

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The Butchering Art : Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (1972) Perhaps the most beloved ofVictorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death', Fitzharris reminds us, since half of those who underwent surgery didn't survive the experience. This was an era when a broken leg could lead to amputation, when surgeons often lacked university degrees, and were still known to ransack cemeteries to find cadavers. While the discovery of anaesthesia somewhat lessened the misery for patients, ironically it led to more deaths, as surgeons