The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine | 
pickThe prologue of The Butchering Art puts to shame any horror cold opening I have ever read, listened to, or watched. The detailed description of a pre-anesthetic bladder stone removal just about had me wrecking my car!
When Fitzharris isn‘t reveling in the gory details of surgery she tends to be on the dry side. Still, what I love about a book like this isn‘t necessarily the info, but the way the info makes me reflect on my life and society.
A fascinating book and one that is helping me feel more peace and healing over recent medical trauma.
pickAbsolutely fascinating. Both the man (Joseph Lister) and the writing are brilliant and clever. Dr. Fitzharris writes like she were there, with all the gore and gross detail to really undermine just how f@cked surgery was drying the 1800‘s.
Lister saved us all.
pickThis was really good.
Well-researched. Right amount of gory details.
Not for the faint of heart. 😉
“His most famous mishap involved an operation during which he worked so rapidly that he took off three of his assistant‘s fingers and, while switching blades, slashed a spectators coat. Both the assistant and the patient died later of gangrene, and the unfortunate bystander expired on the spot from fright. It is the only surgery in history said to have had a 300% fatality rate.”
#CurrentlyReading #Nonfiction #Medicine
pickThough I don‘t have a physical cover, this audiobook is my #MustacheOnTheCover for #Booked2021! This look into the impact of Joseph Lister and his antiseptic protocols is surprisingly fascinating- though not recommended for the squeamish! The state of living and medicine before is as horrific as one would imagine and though there are hiccups along the way, it makes for an engaging and informative listen! #AudioColoring
pickAn interesting read of the career of Joseph Lister, his advancement of germ theory and his quest for antiseptic surgery. When he bean his career, surgeons wore bloodied aprons, there was sawdust on the floor and speed was king; mortality rates were high and infection rampant. Lister found that those patients whose wounds were treated with carbolic acid and kept in clean rooms had a far higher chance of survival. #NFN2020 #Book
Found this book at work while shifting books and just, I wanna read it!! Maybe later 👀 #nonfiction
Global pandemic happening? Read about Victorian era surgeons! - my brain apparently.
pickThis was a #blameitonlitsy read. For months I waited to find it at the library and it was worth it. The German title translates as The horror of early medicine, and it was indeed a horror for patients and doctors, until anesthesia was invented and Joseph Lister took up the fight against infections. One caveat: you should have a strong stomach for the book.
Today‘s #chillingphotochallenge prompt is #gory . Well, this book certainly fits. This book is about a renowned Edinburgh surgeon, Joseph Lister, who pioneered antiseptic techniques. He was the first to say, “umm, guys, what if we wash our hands BEFORE surgery and not just after?” Seriously though, Victorian surgery was brutal. As a microbiology major, Lister is a hero of mine. Naming Listerine for him isn‘t enough to honor him. #teamstoker
pickThis is a well-written & well-researched book about Joseph Lister and the history of surgery. Lots of historical facts and gory details. Great read!
Rating: 5⭐
For my full review please visit https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2984643552
pickThis was a fascinating book of early medical history during the Victorian era, combined with a biography of the health crusader Joseph Lister. Wash your hands everyone!
pick3.5 ⭐ This is the story of Joseph Listers quest to make surgery safer. A fascinating look at the 1800s medical field. I was appalled to think surgeons reused instruments and were proud of the bloody aprons they wore. Aseptic practice has come a LONG WAY!!!!
pickHow far we have come in medicine. Thank God for men like Joseph Lister who are willing to look beyond the accepted and find the unexpected.
pickThe bits about medical procedures & treatments were fascinating (& alarming). Doctors were doing some pretty grisly, backward stuff, essentially groping along in the dark trying to save lives and ending many in the process (although infection would probably have done the job anyway). Joseph Lister is one who shined a light & helped lay the foundation for modern medicine. 👇🏼
I love medical history!
"His left arm was reportedly so strong that he could use it as a tourniquet while wielding the knife in his right hand. This was a feat that required immense strength and dexterity...Liston could remove a leg in less than 30 seconds...in order to keep hands free, he often clasped the bloody knife between his teeth while working. Liston's speed was both a gift and a curse. Once he accidentally sliced off a patient's testicle along with the leg."
Did some #audiobaking tonight. Vegan carrot cake with vegan cream cheese frosting. Turned out pretty well! I think it looks like Pac-Man with the piece missing. Just started the tagged book and it's fascinating (and somewhat alarming) so far 👍🏼
pickOkay this had the potential to be dreadfully dull but it ended being insanely interesting. The author made it more of a narration of the Doctor and his colleagues lives rather than just bullet points and use of very scientific language. Also, I will never be afraid of my own doctors now. The absolute lack of basic hand washing! Ugh *shivers grossed out*
Just finished The Library Book (amazing) Now moving on to this to satisfy my interest in medical history! #nonfiction
2018 was a fantastic reading year! It was hard, but I managed to pull together my top 10 for this year.
Here‘s to even more 5⭐️ reads in 2019!
pickAn excellent overview of Joseph Lister's groundbreaking career. Fitzsimmons had a great eye for the morbid humour essential to medical history and the episodes that bring her subjects to life. Grisly, detailed and well-balanced. Also the first book that ever made me think "I recognise that tumour!" (I used to work at Surgeons' Hall Museums RCSEd). Fascinating but perhaps not for the faint-of-stomach!
Trying to get back in to the habbit of reading with this random airport purchase. Hope this semi accurate scientific snuff will do the trick.
pickWhat a great story, you'll need a strong stomach though - some passages had me wincing with imagined pain. We are truly lucky to live in this age of medicine, if we can afford it of course. There are a lot of famous characters among these pages and some very witty, though gory writing.
Two from the library today, coincidence?
Forgot to post this yesterday before I fell asleep 😅 #blackcatchallenge day 2. This book is definitely #bloodcurdling and not for the faint of heart when it comes to the descriptions. So of course I thoroughly enjoyed it. Fascinating and macabre this book made me sooo happy to have been born in this era rather than the Victorian one. @Clwojick
This book sounds INSANE! I can't wait to read it , I love anatomy and medical books so anything dealing with that intrigues me. This is about how surgery was in the nineteenth century and how much has change, and I'm sure it was very gruesome back then!! #horror #book #nonfiction #booknerd #medical
As a pregnant woman. No, thank you. I'm pleased we've grown from here. 😖
Internal Medicine gets its name from the time where surgeons operated more on the periphery of the body (amputations, tumor removals), because heart, abdomen, etc (the “internal” parts) were so dangerous at the time. Also prob not the best book to read before I gotta get surgery ☠️
A biography of Joseph Lister, who pioneered antiseptic surgery. “Lister‘s methods transformed surgery from a butchering art to a modern science, one where newly tried and tested methodologies trumped hackneyed practices. They opened up new frontiers in medicine —-allowing us to delve further into the living body—-and in the process they saved hundreds of thousands of lives.”
pickEngrossing medical history and biography of Joseph Lister, the surgeon who brought germ theory into the medical mainstream.
Boy if the “Age of Agony” doesnt perfectly sum up this book so far I don‘t know what would. Makes me glad for today‘s advances in modern medicine. I‘m hoping to knock this out tonight (since it‘s due back tomorrow 🙈) and then return to my #freakyfriday reads!
