'When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did – in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.'
Bob Monkhouse (1928-2003)
Picture: Rex Features
Surgery bookIn 1553, Ambroise Paré published a second edition of his Method of Curing Wounds Made by Arquebus and Arrows (“La manière de traicter les playes faictes tant par harquebutes que par flèches”) which he had first published in 1545 to popularize a revolutionary method he had discovered to treat the new medical problem of gunshot wounds. During the siege of Turin (1536-37), having run out of the oil used to cauterize wounds in the conventional way, Paré turned instead to simple dressings and soothing ointment, and immediately noted the improved condition of his patients. In his career, Paré wrote several important medical works which advanced the art of surgery, for which he became known as “the father of modern surgery.” |
