Surgery is nothing short of a stupendous magic act
An excerpt from The Invention of Surgery: A History of Modern Medicine: From the Renaissance to the Implant Revolution.
Johns Hopkins University was unlike anything ever built. Armed with an enormous endowment from a wealthy industrialist, the hospital (and its associated medical school) would be patterned after …


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