Pioneers in Plastic Surgery

• Main Author: Tolhurst, David (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Plastic surgery.; Medicine > History.; Health.; Medicine & Public Health.; Plastic Surgery.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.; History of Medicine.

This book is a collection of short accounts of the lives and works of surgeons who began to use techniques in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that were to form the basis of reconstructive and cosmetic surgery and give rise to the specialty of plastic surgery. Descriptions of the intricate and...

Table of Contents:

• INTRODUCTION
• LIST OF PIONEERS
• 19TH CENTURY SURGEONS
• Short review of main developments
• Abbe
• Bier
• Diefffenbach
• Fergusson
• Joseph
• Lanz
• Lexer
• Morestin
• 20th CENTURY SURGEONS
• Short review of main developments
• Blair
• Burian
• Esser
• Gillies
• Kilner
• Mowlem
• McIndoe
• Sanvenero
• Staige
• Davis.