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Languages : en
Pages : 1278
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The London medical gazette
Author: London Medical Gazette
Author: George III's Illnesses and his Doctors
Author: Michael RamscarPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1399060317
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In the late eighteenth century mental illness was treated with brutal and inhumane methods by ‘mad-doctors’, and the treatment of George III was no exception. George III’s Illnesses and His Doctors provides an insightful, forensic and sympathetic picture of how and why members of the royal family turned in desperation to an unqualified quack practitioner, James Lucett, in the hope of finding a cure for the king’s ‘insanity’. Much has been written in the past about ‘Mad King George’. This book brings fresh evidence and new understanding to the case of the ‘mad’ king. Lucett’s claims were tested in psychiatry’s first ‘therapeutic trial’ and science was invoked in an attempt to improve understanding of the roots of insanity. The results were mixed but nevertheless George III’s case and the subsequent career of the deeply flawed Lucett were important elements in the revolutionary change in attitudes to the treatment of the insane which came about as the nineteenth century progressed. Based closely on primary source material, George III’s Illnesses and His Doctors is a moving story of human suffering but also of efforts to challenge medical orthodoxy and to improve understanding of mental illness. Some of the issues raised in the early nineteenth century remain to be resolved now.
Researches in Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence ... Second edition
Author: John Brodhead BECKTransactions of the Luzerne County Medical Society
Author: Surgery of the prostate, pancreas, diaphragm, spleen, thyroid, and hydrocephalus
Author: Benjamin Merrill RickettsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
A practical treatise on the diseases of the eye ... to which is prefixed an anatomical introduction explanatory of a horizontal section of the human eyeball. By Thomas Wharton Jones. Third edition
Author: William MACKENZIE (M.D.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 972
Book Description
A Handy-book of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology
Author: William Bathurst WoodmanPublisher:
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Category : Medical jurisprudence
Languages : en
Pages : 1254
Book Description
Ulcer of the Stomach
Author: Charles BoltonPublisher:
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Category : Peptic ulcer
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Medicine and the Reign of Technology
Author: Stanley Joel ReiserPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521282239
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book describes some technological advances made in the art and practice of medicine during the past three centuries.