In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of 19th-century surgery and shows how advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875 transformed the field.
A free book event and reading will be held Thursday, Oct. 26, from 6 to 7 p.m. at the Dittrick Museum of Medical History in the Allen Memorial Medical Library.
Books will be sold at the event.
Register online.
