Ch. 1. Surgery in prehistoric times -- Ch. 2. The early years of written history - Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India -- Ch. 3. Surgery in ancient Greece and Rome -- Ch. 4. The Dark Ages and the Renaissance -- Ch. 5. The age of the surgeon-anatomist: part 1 - from the mid 16th to the end of the 17th century -- Ch. 6. The age of the surgeon-anatomist: part 2 - from the beginning of the 18th century to the mid 19th century -- Ch. 7. The advent of anaesthesia and antisepsis -- Ch. 8. Birth of modern surgery - from Lister to the first World War -- Ch. 9. The surgery of warfare -- Ch. 10. Orthopaedic surgery -- Ch. 11. Breast tumours -- Ch. 12. Cutting for the stone -- Ch. 13. Thyroid and parathyroid -- Ch. 14. Thoracic and vascular surgery -- Ch. 15. Organ transplantation -- Ch. 16. Envoi - today and tomorrow.
