Book Review: The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris

[luthienberen]

mightymads invited me to post here my review of the book The Butchering Art by Lindsay Fitzharris, so here I go :-).

The Butchering Art – Joseph Lister’s Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsay Fitzharris (Link to book on Amazon UK)

The book was a wonderful, grotesque yet informing journey through the transformation of medicine from not only the Age of Pain, but the Age of Infection to the understanding of what caused infection and why some wounds became inflamed and infected and not others, and the proper treatment.

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