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The knife man
the extraordinary life and times of John Hunter, father of modern surgery
By Moore, Wendy
- ISBN
- 978-0-76791-652-3
- Publisher
- New York : Broadway Books, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 2005
John Hunter, the almost forgotten 18thcentury polymath (and possibly the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevensons Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) finally gets the biography he deserves in British journalist Moores first book. At a time when medical practice favored bleeding, purging, or amputation for virtually any problem, the relentlessly curious Hunter ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
