The Butchering Art Resurrects Joseph Lister. The Butchering Art brings the horrors of pre-anaesthetic surgery back to life and sets the story for a visionary British surgeon whose quest to unite science and medicine delivered us into the modern world - the safest time to be alive in human history. Book Review For The Butchering Art By Dr Lindsey Fitzharris The Book And Beauty Blog The body parts of the victim began to turn up in various sections of town two days later each cut neatly and wrapped in packing paper. . DAILY MAIL GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Winner of the 2018 PENEO. Be the first to contribute. The gripping story of how Joseph Listers antiseptic method changed medicine forever. Yucky details dont usually make me uncomfortable but a few lines in this book managed to make me nearly gag. His inventor father gifted him the sort of. In The Butchering Art the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the