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Author Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe, author.

Title Dr. Mütter's marvels : a true tale of intrigue and innovation at the dawn of modern medicine / by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz.

Publication Info. New York, New York : Gotham Books, 2014
©2014

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Location Call No. Status
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  BIOGRAPHY MÜTTER, THOMAS D.    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  B MUTTER THOMAS DENT A    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B MUTTER    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Basement Materials  B MUTTER, THOMAS D.    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  617.092 APT    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  617.092 AP86    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  617.092 APTOWICZ    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  617.092 APT    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  B MUTTER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  617.092 APTOWICZ    DUE 12-07-19 Billed

Description 371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Monsters -- The City of Brotherly Love -- To render evil more endurable -- The medical Athens of America -- A falcon flight -- Ce que femme veut, Dieu le veut aussi! -- The Great Thaw -- The new Jefferson Medical College-- The right arm of the College -- Dwell not then upon what has been done -- The root of the trouble -- The world to come -- The women who were swallowed by fire -- To unmake monsters -- To remedy evils -- Gentlemen, this is no humbug -- Advent -- All the fair daughters of Eve -- If I may but touch His garment, I shall be whole -- These deeds of blood -- That bourne from which no traveler returns -- The rich fruits of life's labors -- The voices of the illustrious dead -- Look to God for pardon -- While there is life, there is hope -- Leave nothing undone -- The world is no place of rest.
Summary A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities. Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools-or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle of the nineteenth century. Although he died at just forty-eight, Mütter 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. Brilliant, outspoken, and brazenly handsome, Mütter 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 Philadelphia's Mütter Museum. Award-winning writer Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz vividly chronicles how Mütter's efforts helped establish Philadelphia as a global mecca for medical innovation-despite intense resistance from his numerous rivals. (Foremost among them : Charles D. Meigs, an influential obstetrician who loathed Mütter's "overly" modern medical opinions.) In the narrative spirit of The Devil in the White City, Dr. Mütter'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."--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-354) and index.
Subject Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent), 1811-1859.
Mütter Museum.
Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography.
Medical innovations.
Surgeons -- United States -- Biography.
Surgery -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Mütter, Thomas D. (Thomas Dent), 1811-1859.
Mütter Museum.
General Surgery -- Pennsylvania -- Biography.
Physicians -- Pennsylvania -- Biography.
General Surgery -- history -- Pennsylvania.
History, 19th Century -- Pennsylvania.
Museums -- history -- Pennsylvania.
Pathology -- history -- Pennsylvania.
ISBN 9781592408702 (hardback)
1592408702 (hardback)
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