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There are 9 summaries on Surgery.
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Surgery in the 1700s Summary
3,271 words, approx. 11 pages
 Surgery has a long history in the healing arts. Its history dates back thousands of years to the great seats of early civilization in Athens, Rome, and Alexandria. However, amputations and invasive wound-healing procedures can even be traced to Upper...
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Advancements in Surgery Summary
2,045 words, approx. 7 pages
 During the Renaissance, between 1450 and 1699, surgery was a mix of art, science, and myth. The art of caring for a soldier's battle wounds, the myth of blood-letting to cure or prevent disease, and the advances in scientific surgery for breast...
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Advances in Surgical Techniques Summary
1,966 words, approx. 7 pages
 Surgeons of the twentieth century inherited many ideas and techniques from earlier physicians, which they continued to investigate and improve. Three age-old problems that plagued surgeons—pain, infection, and shock—were beginning to be...
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Modern Advances in Surgery and in Medical Technology Summary
1,965 words, approx. 7 pages
 The science of surgical care has advanced further in the last 50 years than it has in all preceding years combined. Complicated procedures such as natural and artificial organ transplants, xenotransplants (organs transplanted from non-human animals),...
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Modern Surgery Developed Summary
1,902 words, approx. 6 pages
 Surgery is an ancient branch of medicine, but it was not until the nineteenth century that doctors learned to apply practical and effective measures for controlling pain and preventing surgical infection. New techniques for anesthesia and antisepsis...
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Surgery Summary
153 words, approx. 1 pages
 Branch of medicine concerned with treatment by physical means rather than drugs. In addition to operations requiring access to the inside of the body (open surgery), it includes manipulation from outside the body (e.g., setting of a broken bone, skin...
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Surgeon Proverbs Summary
37 words, approx. 0 pages
 A good surgeon has an eagle’s eye, a lion’s heart, and a lady’s hand. (English) A good surgeon must have soft words and a firm hand. (Spanish) Call not a surgeon before you are wounded....
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Surgery Summary
4,942 words, approx. 17 pages
 In medicine, surgery (from the Greek χειρουργική, or chirurgical, and latin chirurgiae meaning "hand work") is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological...

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