This book is a beautiful and enormously entertaining work depicting 5000 years of surgical history. It traces the story of surgery from the prescientific and primitive surgery of the Stone Age to the technical wizardry of the 20th century.
One can discover the birth of surgery in the ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, travel to the mythical East and learn Indian, Chinese and Japanese surgical methods, explore Medieval Europe and witness the work of its barber-surgeons. The book lets you marvel at the Renaissance surgeons such as Pare and Vesalius and recognise the importance of American Civil war, the Crimean war and the II world war in the development of surgery. The book is richly illustrated by a fascinating collection of cartoons, caricatures, documents, drawings, paintings, photographs, portraits, prints, sculptured reliefs and manuscripts. A feast for the eye and mind, this book is a must for all teaching institutions.