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If you have a weak stomach then don't read this book!

Astley Cooper was a surgeon at a time when surgeons were starting to earn the respect of the elite physicians with their knowledge of anatomy and with their success in the operating theatre.

But there was no anaesthetics, no understanding of infections, no antibiotics, and there were also a great many surgeons considerably less qualified than Cooper and considerably less concerned for the well-being of their patient.

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Surgery was a very bloody and dangerous business for all. Surgeons were perforce anatomists, plunging their hands one minute into the rotting cavity of their cadavers, the next into their patients, strapped down on the operating table.

No wonder both patients and surgeon often died of sepsis.

This is a book full of gory detail. Cooper had his bodies stolen to order. He was, like many others including his hero John Hu