Blood and Guts
A History of Surgery
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Today, astonishing surgical breakthroughs are making limb transplants, face transplants, and a host of other previously undreamed-of operations possible. But getting here has not been a simple story of medical progress. In Blood and Guts, veteran science writer Richard Hollingham weaves a compelling narrative from the key moments in surgical history. We have a ringside seat in the operating theater of University College Hospital in London as world-renowned Victorian surgeon Robert Liston performs a remarkable amputation in 30 seconds - from first cut to final stitch. Innovations such as Joseph Lister's antiseptic technique, the first open-heart surgery, and Walter Freeman's lobotomy operations, among other breakthroughs, are brought to life in vivid detail. This is popular science writing at its best.
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Stepping effortlessly from myth to cutting-edge science, Mutants gives a brilliant narrative account of our genetic code and the captivating people whose bodies have revealed it - a French convent girl who found herself changing sex at puberty; children who, echoing Homer's Cyclops, are born with a single eye in the middle of their foreheads; a village of long-lived Croatian dwarves; one family, whose bodies were entirely covered with hair, was kept at the Burmese royal court for four generations and gave Darwin one of his keenest insights into heredity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating
- De A. Holmes en 11-30-24
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The Demon Under The Microscope
- De: Thomas Hager
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 12 h y 14 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,496
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,550
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,548
The Nazis discovered it. The Allies won the war with it. It conquered diseases, changed laws, and single-handedly launched the era of antibiotics. This incredible discovery was sulfa, the first antibiotic medication. In The Demon Under the Microscope, Thomas Hager chronicles the dramatic history of the drug that shaped modern medicine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book!!!!!
- De Amazon Customer en 05-21-08
De: Thomas Hager
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Liquid Rules
- The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives
- De: Mark Miodownik
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 7 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,256
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,953
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,955
We all know that without water we couldn't survive, and that sometimes a cup of coffee or a glass of wine feels just as vital. But do we really understand how much we rely on liquids, or the destructive power they hold? Set over the course of a flight from London to San Francisco, Liquid Rules offers listeners a fascinating tour of these formless substances, told through the language of molecules, droplets, heartbeats, and ocean waves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book!
- De Wayne en 08-04-19
De: Mark Miodownik
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Cannibalism
- De: Bill Schutt
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 293
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 262
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 261
Eating one's own kind is a completely natural behavior in thousands of species, including humans. Throughout history we have engaged in cannibalism for reasons related to famine, burial rites, and medicine. Cannibalism has also been used as a form of terrorism and as the ultimate expression of filial piety. With unexpected wit and a wealth of knowledge, Bill Schutt takes us on a tour of the field, exploring exciting new avenues of research and investigating questions like why so many fish eat their offspring and some amphibians consume their mothers' skin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Strange Topic, Great Book, Loved It
- De Fenna en 06-15-17
De: Bill Schutt
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Quackery
- A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything
- De: Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen
- Narrado por: Hillary Huber
- Duración: 10 h y 29 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,072
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 932
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 932
What won't we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine - yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison - was dosed like Viagra. Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Computer-generated Narrator. Dated Humour.
- De Nemo en 12-28-18
De: Lydia Kang, y otros
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Poisons
- From Hemlock to Botox and the Killer Bean Calabar
- De: Peter Macinnis
- Narrado por: Stephen Hoye
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 82
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 75
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 74
A wide-ranging and provocative look - teeming with little-known facts and engaging stories - at a subject of the direst interest. Poisons permeate our world. They are in the environment, the workplace, the home. They are in food, our favorite whiskey, medicine, well water. They have been used to cure disease as well as incapacitate and kill. They smooth wrinkles, block pain, stimulate, and enhance athletic ability. In this entertaining and fact-filled audiobook, science writer Peter Macinnis considers poisons in all their aspects. He recounts stories of the celebrated poisoners in history and literature....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important knowledge!
- De Tasha Ezaki en 06-23-25
De: Peter Macinnis
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Strange Medicine
- A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages
- De: Nathan Belofsky
- Narrado por: Chris Andrew Ciulla
- Duración: 5 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 14
Now published in five languages, Strange Medicine casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages that highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders. From bad science and oafish behavior to stomach-turning procedures that hurt more than helped, Strange Medicine presents strange but true facts and an honor roll of doctors, scientists, and dreamers who inadvertently turned the clock of medicine backward.
De: Nathan Belofsky
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Never Suck a Dead Man's Hand
- Curious Adventures of a CSI
- De: Dana Kollmann
- Narrado por: Kate Zane
- Duración: 9 h y 43 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 117
Step past the flashing lights into the true scene of the crime with this frank, unflinching, and unforgettable account of life as a crime scene investigator. Whether explaining rigor mortis or the art of fingerprinting a stiff corpse on the side of the road, Dana Kollmann details her true, unvarnished experiences as a CSI for the Baltimore County Police Department.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overall great
- De Jennifer Guffey en 05-28-21
De: Dana Kollmann
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The Invention of Surgery
- A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution
- De: David Schneider MD
- Narrado por: Peter Noble
- Duración: 23 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 107
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Written by an author with plenty of experience holding a scalpel, Dr. David Schneider's in-depth biography is an encompassing history of the practice that has leapt forward over the centuries from the dangerous guesswork of ancient Greek physicians through the world-changing implant revolution of the 20th century.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Joint dysfunction in need of excision
- De scott corron en 09-05-20
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The Butchering Art
- Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
- De: Lindsey Fitzharris
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,424
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,078
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3,069
In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery on the eve of profound transformation. She conjures up early operating theaters - no place for the squeamish - and surgeons, working before anesthesia, who were lauded for their speed and brute strength. They were baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. A young, melancholy Quaker surgeon named Joseph Lister would solve the deadly riddle and change the course of history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not one boring moment!
- De WRF en 12-22-17
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Human Errors
- A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes
- De: Nathan H. Lents
- Narrado por: L.J. Ganser
- Duración: 7 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,282
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,007
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,002
We humans like to think of ourselves as highly evolved creatures. But if we are supposedly evolution's greatest creation, why do we have such bad knees? Why do we catch head colds so often - 200 times more often than a dog does? How come our wrists have so many useless bones? And are we really supposed to swallow and breathe through the same narrow tube? Surely there's been some kind of mistake. As professor of biology Nathan H. Lents explains in Human Errors, our evolutionary history is nothing if not a litany of mistakes, each more entertaining and enlightening than the last.
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4 out of 5 stars
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From Pointless Bones to Broken Genes to...Aliens?
- De Katy.LED en 12-04-18
De: Nathan H. Lents
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The Great Plague
- A People's History
- De: Evelyn Lord
- Narrado por: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Duración: 5 h y 34 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 16
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 16
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 16
In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's effects on smaller towns, where every death was a singular blow affecting the entire community. Lord's fascinating reconstruction of life during plague times presents the personal experiences of a wide range of individuals, from historical notables to common folk. The Great Plague brings this dark era to vivid life through stories of loss and survival from those who grieved, those who fled, and those who hid to await their fate.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great.
- De Michael S. Henderson en 04-30-25
De: Evelyn Lord
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Empire of the Scalpel
- The History of Surgery
- De: Ira Rutkow MD
- Narrado por: Gibson Frazier
- Duración: 15 h y 22 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
Despite passionate debates about health care and the media’s endless fascination with surgery, most of us have no idea how the first surgeons came to be because the story of surgery has never been fully told. Now, Empire of the Scalpel elegantly reveals surgery’s fascinating evolution from its early roots in ancient Egypt to its refinement in Europe and rise to scientific dominance in the United States.
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2 out of 5 stars
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How little the author incorporated his experience
- De dottie en 05-15-25
De: Ira Rutkow MD
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Under the Knife
- A History of Surgery in 28 Remarkable Operations
- De: Arnold van de Laar, Andy Brown - translator
- Narrado por: Rich Keeble
- Duración: 9 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 263
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 226
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 227
From the story of the desperate man from 17th-century Amsterdam who grimly cut a stone out of his own bladder to Bob Marley's deadly toe, Under the Knife offers a wealth of fascinating and unforgettable insights into medicine and history via the operating room. What happens during an operation? How does the human body respond to being attacked by a knife, a bacterium, a cancer cell, or a bullet? And, as medical advances continuously push the boundaries of what medicine can cure, what are the limits of surgery?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Why did a surgeon need a fast horse?
- De India Clamp en 10-18-18
De: Arnold van de Laar, y otros
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The Prime Number Conspiracy
- The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta
- De: Thomas Lin - editor, James Gleick - foreword
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
These stories from Quanta Magazine map the routes of mathematical exploration, showing listeners how cutting-edge research is done, while illuminating the productive tension between conjecture and proof, theory and intuition. Listeners of The Prime Number Conspiracy are headed on "breathtaking intellectual journeys to the bleeding edge of discovery strapped to the narrative rocket of humanity's never-ending pursuit of knowledge," says Quanta editor-in-chief Thomas Lin.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Better [more relevant] than you might expect.
- De James S. en 09-30-19
De: Thomas Lin - editor, y otros
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A Secret History of Brands
- The Dark and Twisted Beginnings of the Brand Names We Know and Love
- De: Matt MacNabb
- Narrado por: Matt Godfrey
- Duración: 6 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 7
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 6
We live our lives immersed in name-brand products. It's hard to drive down the street without seeing a plethora of chain restaurants, car dealerships, branded clothing; they're all around us. What most of us don't know is that the origins of many of the most well-known and beloved brands in the world are shrouded in controversy, drug use, and sometimes even addled with blatant racism. A Secret History of Brands cuts through the rumors and urban legends and paints a picture of the true dark history of famous brands.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Mostly a Deep historic dive into a few brand’s seedy past
- De Steve A. en 01-31-22
De: Matt MacNabb
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A Million Years in a Day
- A Curious History of Everyday Life from the Stone Age to the Phone Age
- De: Greg Jenner
- Narrado por: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 98
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 90
Who invented beds? When did we start cleaning our teeth? How old are wine and beer? Which came first: the toilet seat or toilet paper? What was the first clock? Every day, from the moment our alarm clock wakes us in the morning until our head hits our pillow at night, we all take part in rituals that are millennia old. Structured around one ordinary day, A Million Years in a Day reveals the astonishing origins and development of the daily practices we take for granted.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Super interesting!
- De Brandon en 07-07-16
De: Greg Jenner
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What Cannot Be Undone
- True Stories of a Life in Medicine
- De: Walter M. Robinson
- Narrado por: Daniel Thomas May
- Duración: 5 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 10
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics. These true stories are filled with details of difficult days and nights in the world of high-tech medical care, and they show the ongoing struggle in making critical decisions with no good answer. This collection presents the raw moments where his expertise in medical ethics and pediatrics are put to the test.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Memoir of a neurotic gay man who became a doctor
- De Nancy J. Martin en 05-28-25
Gruesome and good
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Fascinating brief review of the history of surgery
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Gruesome, gory and entertaining
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Amazing and absolutely worth the time
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I love this book!
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Most excellent book! Well done
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Blood and guts
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Interesting!
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