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A Brief History of Medicine
Paul Strathern
Robinson
Paperback
B format, 320 pp
Published 23rd Jun 2005
ISBN: 9781845291556
Markets: World
RRP
£9.99
Paperback
B format, 320 pp
Published 23rd Jun 2005
ISBN: 9781845291556
Markets: World
RRP
£9.99
From Hippocrates to gene therapy, bloodletting to DNA
Paul Strathern follows the development of medicine through the lives of its greatest practitioners, whose discoveries (and errors) shaped the course of medical history. Includes geniuses, such as Paracelsus, the father of medical chemistry, and Edward Jenner, whose vaccination banished smallpox, scientific endeavour, such as the discovery of X-rays, and mistakes bothfortunate and fatal. With grave robbing, plague and germ theory, quackery, nursing, syphilis, micro-organisms and penicillin along the way, this is the ultimate story of human --
and humane -- achievement.
