A Hundred Years of MedicineBeard Books, 1999 - 504 pages A fascinating account of medical advances over the centuries, with particular emphasis on surgical innovations and the prevalent diseases of the period 1840-1940. |
Contents
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SOME COMMON INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF A CENTURY AGO | 42 |
NEPHRITIS | 209 |
THE BEGINNING OF MODERN SURGERY EPHRAIM McDOWELLS OVARIOTOMY | 223 |
THE COMING OF ANAESTHESIA | 227 |
THE CONQUEST OF SURGICAL INFECTION LISTER AND HIS FOLLOWERS | 239 |
THE CONTROL OF HEMORRHAGE | 249 |
SURGERY GROWS UP THE MOST IMPORTANT CONQUESTS OF MODERN SURGERY | 252 |
SURGICAL SHOCK | 275 |
THE SURGICAL SPECIALTIES OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY | 285 |
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION IN THE 18TH CENTURYITS ORGANIZATION AND EDUCATION | 48 |
THE NEW PATHOLOGY | 59 |
NEW AIDS TO DIAGNOSIS | 64 |
THE GERM THEORY INFECTIVE ORGANISMS | 74 |
THE GERM THEORY THE ATTACK ON THE GERM OUTSIDE THE BODY | 86 |
THE GERM THEORY THE ATTACK ON THE GERM INSIDE THE BODY | 104 |
CHEMOTHERAPYTHE MAGIC BULLETS OF MEDICAL SCIENCE | 119 |
TUBERCULOSIS | 131 |
THE VITAMINS | 147 |
PERNICIOUS ANEMIA | 172 |
DIABETES | 177 |
DISEASES OF THE HEART AND BLOOD VESSELS | 184 |
GENITOURINARY SURGERY | 301 |
ORTHOPAEDICS | 307 |
NEUROSURGERY | 319 |
THORACIC SURGERY | 326 |
OTHER SURGICAL SPECIALTIES | 336 |
RADIUM | 350 |
TRAINED NURSES | 357 |
A CENTURY OF PROGRESS | 365 |
THE DOCTORS DILEMMA | 375 |
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