AW: AW: [HSF] History of the heart surgery

[gabi ford]

>From: "Dr. Roberto Battellini" <battr at medizin.uni-leipzig.de>
>The book you mention is "Das Jahrhundert der Chirurgen", Ed Knaur, 1972, by
>Jürgen Thorwald.

He wrote that one first.  It was a huge success in Europe.  The second one 
"Das Weltreich..." was also a success but not as spectacular as the first 
one.

>I have it from a patient I operated in 1991. I read only the chapters about
>Billroth and Rehn ( what a bias!). The Rehn history is phantastic, he went
>first to Rome 1895 and looked at a surgeon called Vecchio during the 11
>International medicine Congress there, performing wounds in dog hearts and
>afterwards sewing them with survival.

I never read the first one, just the second.

Gabi