Ann Dally
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 374
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Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Doubtful Diseases and Fantasy Surgery -- Surgery and the Nineteenth Century -- Dropped Organs -- Autointoxication -- Young Arbuthnot Lane -- Chronic Intestinal Stasis: Surgery for Constipation -- Metchnikoff -- Success and Opposition: 1903-13 -- Alimentary Toxaemia: The Great Debate -- Aftermath -- Follow-up -- Lane in Old Age -- Conclusions -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Appendix.