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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157419703321

Autore

Clarke R. S. J (Richard Samuel Jessop)

Titolo

A surgeon's century : the life of Sir Ian Fraser DSO FRCS / / by Richard Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Belfast : , : Ulster Historical Foundation, , 2004

ISBN

1-908448-41-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Disciplina

617.092

Soggetti

Surgeons - Northern Ireland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A Surgeon's Century: The Life of Sir Ian Fraser; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; list of Illustration; Foreword; Introduction and Acknowledgments; 1. Antecedents; 2. School and university; 3. Surgical training and early years; 4. The Second World War - service in a bchapter00water; 5. Penicillin - North Africa and Italy; 6. Normandy; 7. India; 8. Return from the war; 9. Honours and organizations outside the hospitals; 10. Ian Fraser as writer and lecturer; 11. Growing old; Appendix 1: Published writings of Sir Ian Fraser; Appendix 2: Medals, decorations and honours

Sources and referencesIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Ulster has produced an impressive number of surgeons who have gained world-wide renown. None has been more celebrated, or more deserving of a biography than Sir Ian Fraser whose life spanned almost the whole of the 20th century. Following a brillant university career, Fraser's training occupied most of the inter-war years. As with most innovatory surgeons, his career really flourished in war-time conditions. During the Second World War, he was at the forefront of the early field trials of a drug that would benefit the whole of mankind - penecillin - first, in the crucial allied victory in N