The Knife Man: Blood, Body Snatching, and the Birth of Modern Surgery

In an era when bloodletting was considered a cure for everything from colds to smallpox, surgeon John Hunter was a medical innovator, an eccentric, and the person to whom anyone who has ever had surge…

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