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A Brief History of Disease,
Science
& Medicine
Did
prehistoric surgeons perform brain surgery?
Could the
advice of Hippocrates, the founder of ancient Greek medicine, have
prevented thousands of deaths in the 1918 flu epidemic?
Did the
surgeons of ancient India invent plastic surgery?
Did syphilis
exist in Europe before Columbus?
How did
Roentgen discover the x-ray? Was it an accident? Why was his wife
frightened by the discovery?
What had the
weather to do with Fleming’s discovery of penicillin?
What Nobel
Prize winner was forced by Hitler to turn down the prize ?
All these
questions and thousands more are answered in a new book on the history
of medicine.
Reviews
"Reading this book is
like hopping into your own time machine. It takes you to the
important, interesting, and sometimes quirky historical times in
medicine. Case in point: during a clinical scenario exercise, my
patient notes that she had taken part in, “Sister Kenny’s therapies”
for polio. While my classmates scratched their heads trying to figure
out the significance of this, I recalled the story of the Australian
outback nurse who developed a devout following for her rehabilitative
tactics for polio – tactics that perhaps made her patients worse off
in the end. Understanding medicine’s history brings this art to life.
This book does just that and, more importantly, makes learning about
medicine’s history enjoyable and fun."
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