The Butchering Art leading to a prestigious position

leading to a prestigious position as court physician

possibly created by the artist Jan Steven van Calcar

in pursuit of a medical career

contain the hemoglobin that carries oxygen and carbon dioxide around the body

Unique gift for scientists

The Butchering Art leading to a prestigious positionVictorian operating theatres were known as 'gateways of death': half of those who underwent surgery did not survive. Despite anesthesia, doctors remained baffled by the persistent infections that kept mortality rates stubbornly high. Then a young, melancholy Quaker surgeon called Joseph Lister made the audacious claim that germs were the source of all infection and could be treated with antiseptics. Fitzharris brilliantly conjures up the grisly world