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Dead Ends!: Flukes, Flops & Failures That Sparked Medical Marvels:
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Sisters in Science
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“The best that can be said about Victorian hospitals is that they were a slight improvement over their Georgian predecessors. That’s hardly a ringing endorsement when one considers that a hospital’s “Chief Bug-Catcher”—whose job it was to rid the mattresses of lice—was paid more than its surgeons.”
― The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
― The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is almost certainly wrong. —ARTHUR C. CLARKE”
― The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
― The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
“Remarkably, Bichat was able to describe and name twenty-one membranes in the human body, including connective, muscle, and nerve tissue, before he died accidentally in 1802 after falling down the steps of his own hospital.”
― The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
― The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
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