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To work in the vineyard of surgery; the reminiscences of J. Collins Warren, 1842-1927.

Title
To work in the vineyard of surgery; the reminiscences of J. Collins Warren, 1842-1927. Ed., with appendices, notes, and comments, by Edward D. Churchill.
Author
Churchill, Edward D. (Edward Delos), 1895-1972
Publication
Cambridge, Harvard Univ. Press, 1958.

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Churchill, Edward D. (Edward Delos), 1895-1972
Description
viii, 288 pages illustrations, portraits
Subject
  • Warren, John Collins, 1842-1927
  • Warren, John Collins, 1842-1927
  • Surgeons > United States > Biography
  • Physicians
  • Surgery
  • Physicians
  • General Surgery
  • physicians
  • surgery (health care function)
  • Surgery
  • Surgeons
  • United States
Genre/Form
  • Biography
  • collective biographies.
  • Biographies
  • Biographies.
  • Memoirs.
Bibliography (note)
  • "Sources": p. 272-274. Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents
Two discoveries awaken an ancient art -- An old New England surgeon -- Nineteenth-century Boston and its surgery -- A medical cadet in wartime Philadelphia -- Wound surgery on the Pamunkey River -- The old North Grove Street medical college -- House pupil at the Massachusetts General Hospital -- Surgical observations in London -- Dresdan and the six weeks' war -- Vienna in its medical heyday -- The three masters of Berlin -- Rumors of carbolic acid heard in Paris -- Prophets of a new era -- I talked with Lister -- Practice on Park Street -- The old guard in control -- A trickle of new ideas -- The aneurism of William Young, mechanic -- A new generation at the old hospital -- A new generation at Harvard -- The medical school moves to Boylston Street -- A transition period -- The great undertaking on Longwood Avenue.
LCCN
58008993
OCLC
  • ocm00824420
  • 824420
  • SCSB-158377
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library