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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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- Released
- 1992
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- Title
- A History of Medicine
- Subtitle
- From Prehistory to the Year 2020
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Morgan Samuel editions
- Released
- 1992
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN10
- 0671711326
- ISBN13
- 9780671711320
- Series
- Rating
- 4.4 out of 5
- Description
- 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.