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A History of Medicine

From Prehistory to the Year 2020

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  • 256 páginas
  • 9 horas de lectura

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Taken from the Foreword:The authors take you on a fascinating tour through ages and continents, with stories of superstition, bravery, the odds, persecution and inspiration: from East to West; from quacks to humble scientists and then to Nobel-prize winners; from witch doctors to royal surgeons.You will read in these pages of the horrors and the unexpected successes of the medicine of Ancient Greece and Rome and the Dark Ages; of how the bubonic plague decimated populations in the Middle Ages; and of the triumphs of anaesthesia, antisepsis, vaccination and antibiotics.

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A History of Medicine, Nancy Duin, Jenny Sutcliffe, Professor Dr Hero Van Urk

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1992
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Título
A History of Medicine
Subtítulo
From Prehistory to the Year 2020
Idioma
Inglés
Publicado en
1992
Páginas
256
ISBN10
0671711326
ISBN13
9780671711320
Serie
Calificación
4,4 de 5
Descripción
Taken from the Foreword:The authors take you on a fascinating tour through ages and continents, with stories of superstition, bravery, the odds, persecution and inspiration: from East to West; from quacks to humble scientists and then to Nobel-prize winners; from witch doctors to royal surgeons.You will read in these pages of the horrors and the unexpected successes of the medicine of Ancient Greece and Rome and the Dark Ages; of how the bubonic plague decimated populations in the Middle Ages; and of the triumphs of anaesthesia, antisepsis, vaccination and antibiotics.