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This is an exceptionally well written, well illustrated, fully referenced history of cardiothoracic surgery from ancient times up to the introduction of open-heart surgery in the 1950s. It also has chapters on the history of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, bronchoscopy, esophagoscopy and thoracoscopy, electrocardiography, cardiac catheterization, angiocardiography, percussion and auscultation, thoracic anesthesia, estimation of blood pressure and temperature, blood transfusion, and the discovery of the circulation of the blood. The book includes extracts from the writings of early clinicians and contains an extensive bibliography.

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outlines the development of surgery with the predominant emphasis on the development of the field of cardiothoracic surgery. It is a longitudinal description that encompasses developments back into the early Egyptian times, up until the present time. It uses the development of each specific disease state as a paradigm for the historic development in the field of cardiothoracic surgery. It nicely encompasses both noncardiac thoracic surgery and cardiac surgery. The book is most complete in its inclusion of the major historic events and people that substantially contributed to the field of cardiothoracic surgery. The purpose is to both inform the reader and to keep the reader interested in a story, and it admirably achieves this purpose. The audience to which this book is addressed should include students, residents, and practitioners in the field of pulmonary medicine, cardiology, and cardiothoracic surgery. The practitioner of cardiothoracic surgery should be particularly interested. This scholarly treatiseshould please the reader in its analysis of each of the disease states specific to the field of cardiothoracic surgery. Its excellence lies in the author's ability to encompass those esoteric features that historically helped cardiothoracic surgery to develop; it should also have practical significance for the practitioner of cardiothoracic surgery, because it gives a broad perspective regarding the evolution and development of the practice of cardiothoracic surgery as done today. This is an extraordinary narrative on the evolution and development of the field of cardiothoracic surgery. It should be part of the library of any practitioner who is serious aboutunderstanding the fieldof cardiothoracic surgery. - Thomas W. Prendergast, MD, University of Kansas Medical Center

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