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and kidney dialysis
repairing
stemming the blood flow of
artists, Renaissance
Aryan race
Asclepius
assassinations
atomic weapons
atria
atrial septal defects
autopsies
see also post-mortems
B cells
barbers
Barnard, Christiaan
Barnum's American Museum
basal ganglia
battlefields
see also field hospitals; war wounds
Bavolek, Cecelia
BBC see British Broadcasting Corporation
BBC4
Beatrice, Princess
beauty, classical
bedlinen
Bellevue Hospital, New York
Bennett, A. Hughes
Bigelow, Henry
Bigelow, Henry Jacob
Bigelow, Wilfred Bill
Billroth, Theodor
black bile
Black Gang
bleeding to death
blood
circulation
clots
draining
Galen on
and heart-lung machines
William Harvey on
blood flow control
in heart surgery
in neurosurgery
without blood vessel damage
blood groups, AB negative
blood poisoning
blood pressure, high
blood transfusions
blood vessels
re-attachment
repairing
tying off
see also arteries; veins
bloodletting
'cupping' technique
with leeches
scarifiers
bodysnatching
Bologna, Italy
bone nippers
bones see skeletons
Borel, Jean
Boschetti, Count Paolo Emilio
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
'botched' operations
brain
activity
basal ganglia
dissection
donation to science
dura
electronic implants
frontal lobes
functional map of the
Galen's study of the
meninges
motor cortex
oxygen demands
'switching off'
see also neurosurgery
brain damage
and personality change
brain tumours
brainwashing
breast cancer
breasts, male
Breindenbach, Warren
Britain, battle of
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
see also BBC4
British Medical Journal
bull-fighting
bullets
burns
Butler, Peter
Calne, Roy
Campbell, Gilbert
Canadian prairie, nr Toronto
cancer
breast
carbolic acid
cardiac surgery see heart surgery
Carlisle
Carnot, Sadi
carotid artery
Carrel, Alexis
Carstairs, Jane
Carter, Stuart
catgut sutures
cats
cauterizing
see also electrocautery devices
cauterizing irons
cemeteries, bodysnatching from
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Chicago
childbed (puerperal) fever
childbirth
children
lobotomised
chin operations
Chinese surgeons
chloride of lime
chloroform
dosage
fatalities
cholera
Church
Churchill, Frederick
Churchill, Winston
circulation
Clark, Sophie
cochlea implants
Columbus, Christopher
Conolly, Martin
convulsions
see also fits; seizures
cooling bodies
Córdoba, Spain
Crichton, Michael
Crimean War
criminals
dissection
harvesting the organs of
skeletons
cross-circulation operations
'crow's beak' device
crush injuries
'cupping' technique
Cushing, Harvey
Cushing Tumour Registry
cyclosporine A
D-Day
Darwin, Charles
Deacon, Gladys, Duchess of Marlborough
death sentence
Delgado, José
Demikhov, V.P.
dentistry
Department of Health
dermatomes
Detroit riots
Devlin, Joe
DeWall, Dick
diabetes
digestive system
Dillon, Laura Maude (later Michael)
Dillon, Sir Robert
Dinoire, Isabelle
disease
see also infection
dissection, human
brain
public
see also autopsies; post-mortems
dog attacks
dog studies
'dressers' (assistant surgeons)
dressings
antiseptic
drink-driving
drugs
psychotropic
see also immunosuppressive drugs
Dubost, Charles
Dully, Howard
Dully, Lou
dura (brain membrane)
duration of surgery
ears
Edinburgh
Edinburgh University
Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon
electric scalpels
electrocardiograph (ECG)
electrocautery devices
electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
electroencephalograph (EEG)
electromagnets
electronic implants, brain
Elizabeth, Queen Mother
emotions
induction through brain implants
neurological basis
endotracheal intubation
enemas
England
English Channel
epilepsy
Ervin, Frank
ether
flammability
eugenics
euthanasia
Evans, Martin A.
explosives
face transplants
false teeth
fear
femoral artery
fever
field hospitals
see also battlefields; war wounds
Fifteenth Thoracic Centre
First World War
fits
see also convulsions; seizures
Flanagan and Allen
Flavell, J.M.
fluoroscopy
forceps
Ford, Henry
four humours
Foxley, Bill
fractures, compound
arm
infection
leg
France
François I
Freeman, Walter
French Resistance
French surgeons
frock coats
frontal lobes
frostbite
Gage, Phineas
Galen
Galenic medicine
gangrene
Gardener, Bill
gas attacks
George Washington University Hospital, Washing
ton DC
Gibbon, John H. Jr
Gillies, Sir Harold
gladiators
Glasgow
Glastonbury, Somerset
Godlee, Rickman
gonorrhoea
Great Northern Railway
great saphenous vein
Greco, Vic
Greener, Hannah
Greenlees, James
Grenfell, Joyce
Grey Turner, George
Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town
groundhogs
growths
guillotine
Guinea Pig Club
gunpowder
Guthrie, Charles
Guy's Hospital, London
Hadlow, Janice
haemoglobin
haemorrhage
see also bleeding to death; blood flow control
Hakim, Nadey
Hall, John
Hallam, Clint
Halsted, William
Hammatt, Alice
Hammersmith Hospital, London
hands
burns
transplants
hanged men
Hardy, James
Hariz, Marwan
Harken, Major Dwight
Harlow, John
Harrison, J. Hartwell
Harvard Medical School
Harvey, William
head injury
headaches
heart
16th-century anatomy of
atria
hole in the
normal
pericardium
ventricles
heart attack
sudden
heart surgery
animal-lung methods
closed-heart
cooling bodies for
cross-circulation operations
heart transplants
and heart-lung machines
open-heart
and stopping the heart
timing issues
heart valves
artificial
defects
heart-blocks
heart-lung machines
Lillehei-DeWall bubble oxygenator
Heath, Robert
Hebra, Professor
Henderson
heparin
Herrick, Richard
Herrick, Ronald
Herskowitz, Ida
hibernation
Hibernin
high blood pressure
Hill, Dr (brother of Luther)
Hill, Luther Leonidas
Hindu tradition
Hippocrates
Hitler, Adolf
Holtz, Howard
homosexuality
Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis, London
Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
hospitalism
humours
Hunter, John
Hurricanes
Hutchinson, Ian
Hyde, Jonathan
hygiene
see also antiseptic operating techniques
hypnotism
hypospadias
hypothermia
icepick lobotomies
immortality
immune system
radioactive suppression
tissue typing
and transplant surgery
immunosuppressive drugs
cyclosporine A
in transplant surgery
India
Indian medical practice
infection, hospital
inferior vena cava
Inquisition
Institut de Beauté, Paris
insulin
intensive care units
International Business Machine Corporation (IBM)
intestines
Ionesco, Ellen
Japan
Jewish Hospital, Louisville
John Radcliffe Hospital
Johnson, Jacqueline
Journal of the American Medical Association
Kantrowitz, Adrian
Keats, John
Kennedy, Joe
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Rosemary
Kent, Duchess of
kidney dialysis
kidney (renal) failure
kidney transplants
kidneys
Kirklin, John W.
knee pain
knives, surgical
Kolff, Willem
Kolle, Frederick
Kolletschka, Jakob
Kostakis, Alkis
Lancaster bombers
Lancet (journal)
Las Vegas
Laughlin, Henry
leeches
leg
amputation
compound fractures
Leonardo da Vinci
Leopold, Prince
Leroudier, Madame
leucotome
leucotomy
Lewis, F. John
ligatures
Lillehei, Walter
Lillehei-DeWall bubble oxygenator
Lindbergh, Charles A.
Lindbergh pump
Lister, Joseph
Listeria
Listerine mouthwash
Listerism
Liston, Robert
liver transplants
lobotomy
conscious
transorbital
Loman, Gladys
London
Longmore, Donald
Los Altos, California
Louisville, Kentucky
Louvain, Flanders
Lower-Austrian Mental Home
Lucas, William
Lumley, Second Lieutenant Henry
lung
transplants
lymphatic system
lymphocytes
B cells
T cells
Lyon
Macfee, Mr
Magill, Ivan
Marcus Aurelius
Mark, Vernon
Marlborough, 9th Duke of
Marlborough, Gladys, Duchess of
Marston, Robert
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
mastectomy
Mayo Clinic, Rochester
McBirnie, John
McCreadie, Rory
McIndoe, Archibald
Medical Mavericks (TV series)
medicine
Meggison, Thomas
melancholy
Melrose, Denis
meninges
meningitis
mental health problems
mesmerism
metabolism, slowing of
Metrazol
miasma
micro-organisms
microsurgery
midwives
Miller, Bernard
Miller, Glenn
Minneapolis
mitral stenosis
mitral valve
Moniz, Egas
monkey studies
Montgomery, Alabama
mortality rates
200 per cent
300 per cent
from bloodletting
from childbed fever
from chloroform use
from heart surgery
from Robert Liston's surgery
from transplant surgery
and hygiene
neurosurgical
Morton, William
mortuaries
mouths, plastic surgery for
Murray, Joseph
musket shots
Mustard, William T.
Myrick, Henry
NASA
National Heart Hospital, London
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London
Nazis
neurosurgery
brain tumours
electronic implants
lobotomy
neutrophils
Nevada
New York Times (newspaper)
Nightingale, Florence
Nissen huts
nitrous oxid
e
Norfolk & Norwich Hospital
Normandy, France
nose jobs
nuclear energy
obstetrics
oil, boiling
Old Operating Theatre, London
operating instruments
operating microscopes
operating tables
orbitoclasts (lobotomy tool)
Owen, Earl
oxygen
consumption
and heart-lung machines
transport
pacemakers
Paget, Sir Stephen
pain
thresholds
pain-relief
alcohol and
using brain implanted electrodes
see also anaesthetic
pancreas transplants
paraffin wax injections (cosmetic)
paraffinoma (wax cancer)
paralysis
Paré, Ambroise
Paris
Parker, Dr
Parkinson's disease
Pasteur, Louis
patient choice
pedicles
tube
waltzing tube
penicillin
penis, cosmetic construction
Pergamum, Asia Minor
pericardium
Perry, Heather
Perth
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Philadelphia Jefferson Hospital
phlegm
pig studies
'piggyback' operation
pioneering surgery
placebo effect
plastic surgery
burns
nose jobs
sex change operations
pneumonia
portal vein
post-mortems
see also autopsies
potassium chloride
potassium citrate
poultices
priests
prosthetic limbs
psychiatric hospitals
psychotropic drugs
pulse
pupil contracture
purging
Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead
Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent
radiation sickness
radiation therapy, total body irradiation
railway work
red blood cells
Red Cross
Renaissance
resurrectionists
rheumatic fever
Richmond, Calvin
riots
Riteris, John
road traffic accidents
Roberts, Alice
Robinson, Dr
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, Paris
Romans
Ross, Donald
Royal College of Surgeons
Royal Flying Corps
Royal Free Hospital
Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh
Royal Society
Rugio, Paulo Santoni
Rutland & Burlington Railroad
Saburido, Jacqueline
St Bartholomew's Hospital
St Elizabeths Hospital, Washington DC
St Rokus Hospital, Pest
salves
Sandoz
Santo, Cesare Giovanni
Savage, David
Savage, Karen
saws
scarifiers
schizophrenia
childhood
Scotsman (newspaper)
Sea, Private A.J.
Second World War
seizures
induction
see also convulsions; fits
Semmelweis, Ignaz
Servelle, Marcel
sewage treatment
sewing up
blood vessels
sutures
sex change operations, female to male
Shaw, George Bernard
Shaw, Mike
shivering