The Knife That Saves: Memoirs of a Lahey Clinic Surgeon Historical a compilation of twelve essays

a compilation of twelve essays that not only present a clearer picture of Wells’s efforts in bringing about painless surgery

The volume also details Henry’s role in the choice of Alexander Dallas Bache as head of the U

and communications

Pirogov's life (1810–1881) coincided with the "golden age of Russian literature" which dated roughly from 1820 to 1880

Early modern polemics against religious superstition could mislead us into believing that the healing practices associated with the body parts of saints or other figures was a feature specific to Christianity

The Knife That Saves: Memoirs of a Lahey Clinic Surgeon Historical a compilation of twelve essaysAdams, Herbert Dan, xi + 369pp., illus. A 1929 graduate of the Harvard Medical School and by 1932 Chief Surgical Resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Herbert Dan Adams relates with colorful language and lively description the story of the Lahey Clinic as he saw and lived it from 1929, when he encountered Dr. Lahey, until 1969, when he retired as the Clinics third Director.