'Crucial Interventions: An illustrated treatise on the principles and practice of nineteenth-century surgery' by Richard Barnett

The surgery may have been performed on patients under anaesthetic but readers of this book have no such protection from discomfort. Beautifully executed chromolithographs of procedures and instruments abound. Fortunately there are fewer pictorial horrors on the text pages, which lack enables the reader to stay the long enough to read.  

Jan '16