The Department of Surgery was founded in 1837, earlier than the medical school, under the leadership of the first professor of surgery at Saint Louis University, Dr. William Beaumont. He was a U.S.

For most of 1800s, surgery was disgusting, filthy and unsafe. Without anesthesia, speed was of the absolute essence. Robert Liston, one of the most prominent surgeons of the 19th century, accidentally ...

“The history of surgery is a series of awe-inspiring, discrete triumphs,” according to this smart survey from historian and surgeon Rutkow (Seeking the Cure). He begins in the Stone Age, when ...

Today marks the 50-year anniversary of one of the most important events in surgical history: On May 6, 1953, Dr. John Gibbon, a surgeon at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, performed the ...

From the pioneering work of Galen on Roman gladiators to the latest advances in plastic surgery, this five-part series illustrates the evolution of surgical techniques—a story as much of mishaps and ...

Democratic, divine and heroic: the history and historiography of surgery / Christopher Lawrence -- Seventeenth-century English surgery: the casebook of Joseph Binns / Lucinda McCray Beier -- Surgery ...

There are some stories that act like fractals. They contain intricate patterns that zoom down into finer and finer detail, so that in the end, what first seemed like a simple concept actually contains ...

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