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In an era when bloodletting was considered a cure for everything from colds to smallpox, surgeon John Hunter was a medical innovator, an eccentric, and the person to whom anyone who has ever had surgery probably owes his or her life. In this sensational and macabre story, we meet the surgeon who counted not only luminaries Benjamin Franklin, Lord Byron, Adam Smith, and Thomas Gainsborough among his patients but also "resurrection men" among his close acquaintances. A captivating portrait of his ruthless devotion to uncovering the secrets of the human body, and the extraordinary lengths to which he went to do so—including body snatching, performing pioneering medical experiments, and infecting himself with venereal disease—this rich historical narrative at last acknowledges this fascinating man and the debt we owe him today.
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Robin Foster
reviewed The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery on June 27, 2011
The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery
Trigger warnings: lots and lots of medical stuff and anatomy and dissection and weird experiments on animals that end in them dying.
So this is a biography of John Hunter, eighteenth century surgeon. It tells the story of his life through cases that he worked, experiments he performed, and discoveries he made that revolutionised medicine forever. In an era when most doctors still relied on bleeding and purging as their core treatments, Hunter - despite being a surgeon, not a doctor - was all "Yeah, I'mma fix the ACTUAL cause" or "Leave it alone, it'll sort itself out" as required.
He was clearly a brilliant mind, albeit a little cracked out. Like...homeboy gave himself syphilis so that he could track the progress of syphilis and report on it medically???? W.H.U.T. He also relied heavily on body snatchers, provided medical care to some of the most important people in the country, was pretty unscrupulous at times, and amassed an incredible collection of anatomical and natural history objects.
Anyway. This was occasionally horrifying but largely fascinating. It's definitely not one for the faint of heart, but if you're at all interested in medical history, give it a go!
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