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Hardcover, published by Gill Books,2008 edited by Barry O'Donnell. With a gift inscription by him , ''to Charles, a fellow collector of important trivia, with admiration, Barry, June 2009''
Commencing with a chronolgy of developments in surgery, the book goes on to examine the development of the various specialities including the closely related disciplines of anaesthesia and radiology. It treats also the evolution of the lifestyle of the surgeon and the variety of social and professional experience encountered. At the heart of this book are more than 600 brief biographies of Irish born or Irish based surgeons, who worked during the past century and either retired or died before the end of 2005. In many cases the subjects are illustrated by either a formal portrait or photograph.
