Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation

Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the countryâ€™s most famous museum of medical oddities
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Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his toolsâ€”or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent MÃ¼tter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle of the nineteenth century.
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Although he died at just forty-eight, MÃ¼tter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anesthesia, the sterilization of surgical tools, and a compassion-based vision for helping the severely deformed, which clashed spectacularly with the sentiments of his time.
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Brilliant, outspoken, and brazenly handsome, MÃ¼tter was flamboyant in every aspect of his life. He wore pink silk suits to perform surgery, added an umlaut to his last name just because he could, and amassed an immense collection of medical oddities that would later form the basis of Philadelphiaâ€™s MÃ¼tter Museum.
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Award-winning writer Cristin Oâ€™Keefe Aptowicz vividly chronicles how MÃ¼tterâ€™s efforts helped establish Philadelphia as a global mecca for medical innovationâ€”despite intense resistance from his numerous rivals. (Foremost among them: Charles D. Meigs, an influential obstetrician who loathed MÃ¼tterâ€™s "overly" modern medical opinions.) In the narrative spirit of TheÂ Devil in the White City, Dr. MÃ¼tterâ€™s Marvels interweaves an eye-opening portrait of nineteenth-century medicine with the riveting biography of a man once described as the "P. T. Barnum of the surgery room."
Country USA
Manufacturer Avery
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-09-04
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Avery
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-09-04
Format	Kindle eBook

Dr. Mutter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

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