Lizz’s Reviews > The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine > Status Update

I knew that gangrene was fatal but I never thought in detail about how the deaths occurred. But I needn’t because this book has provided me with graphic detail of more than one account

I may have to take a day off from this book because while I’m thoroughly enjoying it picturing such gruesome scenes is still taking a toll