by Gilbert Schlogel · Fayard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213028330
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«Les princes du sang» is the historical novel by Gilbert Schlogel, published by Fayard in paperback (647 pages, in French).
The work follows five surgeons from the same family between the eighteenth century and the Algerian War, amid the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. Surgery advances with anaesthesia, asepsis, radiology, antibiotics and transplants, while their lives are torn between ambition, love and the fight to save lives.
Gilbert Schlogel, the author of the novel, was a surgeon and intern at the Paris hospitals, and led a surgical unit during the Algerian War.
For those who enjoy family sagas with a historical backdrop and the evolution of medicine over the centuries.
