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A Brief History of Medicine

Paul Strathern

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 both

fortunate 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.

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-- Prize-winning author famous for bringing science alive,-- Lively and readable, comprehensive and authoritative -- for specialist and general reader alike

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