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Winner, PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing"Warning: She spares no detail!" —Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead WakeIn The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and shows how it was transformed by advances made in germ theory and antiseptics between 1860 and 1875. She conjures up early operating theaters—no
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　　「毒與藥」乍看是兩種截然相反的東西，實際上卻是一體兩面。　　譬如劇毒植物烏頭的毒性，用在中藥裡卻是重要的強心劑。河豚毒素也具有使用於止痛或治療心臟疾病的可能性。把人變成廢人、失去社會能力的劇毒鴉片，對於癌症患者而言卻是止痛良藥。多數毒物只要少量且小心使用就能成為無可替代的藥物，反之藥物如果大量使用也可能變成毒物。換句話說「毒與藥不過就是劑量的差別」。　　自然界充滿了毒與藥。據說光是日本就有大約5000種蕈菇類，其中3分之1具有毒性。植物也有許多種類具備毒性，過去人類將這些植物作為狩獵用的毒餌，現在則使用於醫療，甚至是休閒時的嗜好品。　　海洋中的藻類與小動物生產各種劇毒，這些毒性不只留存於生產者體內，也被許多魚類廣泛攝取並儲存在身體當中，成為保護自身的盾，或是捕食獵物的武器。　　毒物與藥物不只來自大自然的動物、植物與礦物，也有許多由我們人類運用自身的知識與技術合成出來。　
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