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02 June 2010
Development of modern surgery
I bought this because it had received a very favorable review in the New York Times science section. It's the story of William Halstead, the father of modern surgery in this country and also the story of the development of Johns Hopkins Hospital and medical school. It covers the changes in surgery from the 3rd quarter of the 19th century to the 1st quarter of the 20th century. Surgery started out the period as a rushed, desperate affair with minimal anesthesia and high infection and mortality rates. By the end of the book it had been transformed by the development of better anesthesia and an understanding of the principles on antiseptic surgery. Although still primitive by current standards, by the 1920s it was recognizable as the progenitor of modern surgery. Halsted played a role in every major advance from the introduction rubber gloves to the development of surgical techniques such as the radical mastectomy that were still in use until comparatively recently. He did one of the first successful operations to remove gall stones, on a kitchen table in Albany, on his mother. He was also quite a character. Well written and a fascinating read.
12 December 2015
Decent overview but too much attention to personalities
0 of 1 found this helpful This was written in 1975, so it is rather dated. It's a good surface treatment of the building's history, but Birmingham, particularly in the more recent years, spends a lot of times dropping names, many of which are long forgotten. Much of the treatment of the post war period is not particularly interesting.
12 December 2015
Woman artist who survived the revolution
A marvelous book. Lebrun was a prolific French artist who managed to survive and prosper during a violent period in European history. She was born in 1755 and started painting professionally at 15. She eventually became court painter to Marie Antoinette's who would sing to her while she was painting. She was ignorant of or uninterested in all of the political conflict around her and couldn't understand how the Bourbons, whom she thought were a nice family, managed to lose the throne. This was written 1830s so it may have been tailored to the winners.
She left France in 1789 for 12 years, during which she traveled around to royal courts in Europe where everybody seemed to want her to paint their portrait. She was a big fan of Catherine the Great, whose court she stayed at for several years. She seemed to know everyone.
She was quite highly paid. Currency conversions back that far can be tricky but she seemed to be making the equivalent of about $200-250,000 a year for much of the time. There is also a rather sad side story about her relationship with her daughter who traveled with her. Not much on the painting but a fascinating look at a profession woman in the late 18th - early 19th century. She died in 1842 and seems to have painted for most of her life. The list of her painting runs 18 pages including one line that simply says 200 English and Swiss landscapes. They are doing a retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in February, 2016.