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xiii, 408 pages : illustrations (including music) ; 24 cm |
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An unknown hero of medicine -- Spirits, demons, ghosts, and witches -- Theories and facts -- Imhotep the God --Aesculapius, the myth -- Hippocrates, the name -- The path of medicine -- The bearers of knowledge -- The way divides- East and west -- Disease and conquest -- Science under the caliphs -- Medicine follows the crusades -- Town and gown -- The black death -- The mental contagions -- Paracelsus, the critic -- Vesalius, the observer -- Pare, the experimenter -- The science of medicine -- The superstitions of medicine -- The practice of medicine -- European medicine comes to America -- A century in America -- Doctors in laces and frills -- Medicine at the bedside -- In the operating room -- In barracks and prisons -- The laboratory -- The frontiers of disease -- The goal |
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Medicine -- History.
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Medicine. |
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History. |
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Physicians.
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Physicians. |
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