Word: kobler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Reluctant Surgeon, by John Kobler. John Hunter, the brilliant and eccentric 18th century medical experimenter, is well portrayed in a readable biography...
...Reluctant Surgeon, by John Kobler. A zestful biography of John Hunter, brilliant, eccentric 18th century surgeon who did as much as any man to turn surgery and pathology into sciences...
...Reluctant Surgeon, by John Kobler. A zestful biography of John Hunter, brilliant, eccentric 18th century surgeon who did as much as any man to turn surgery and pathology into sciences...
...RELUCTANT SURGEON (359 pp.)-John Kobler-Doubleday...
...this fluent, zestful biography, Author Kobler shows how, in the Age of Reason, John Hunter's profession was largely a slit-or-miss affair. Anesthesia was virtually unknown; patients scarcely drugged by doses of laudanum or brandy expected only death from the agony of the knife. Untrained midwives often ripped babies' heads from shoulders in the course of arduous labor. The cliquish Corporation of Surgeons had a near monopoly on cadavers for dissection; private anatomy teachers were forced to traffic with the "sack-'em-up men"-the body snatchers...