[From a barber to a present-day surgeon. The history of surgery since XV till XIX century]
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1Zakładu Humanistycznych Nauk Lekarskich Akademii Medycznej we Wrocławiu.
Wiadomosci Lekarskie (Warsaw, Poland : 1960)
|October 20, 2001
Abstract:
The surgery, apart from the obstetrics, is the oldest field of medicine. Necessity of coming to the rescue in mechanical injuries--caused mostly by food fighting, military operations, self-defence activity and all kinds of accidents--was the reason of surgery origin. This field of medicine has always been rational.
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