Author: Henry Lee (F.R.C.S.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Pathological and Surgical Observations ... And an Essay on the Surgical Treatment of Haemorrhoidal Tumours
Author: Henry Lee (F.R.C.S.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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An Essay on the Pathology of the Oesophagus
Author: John F. KnottPublisher:
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Category : Esophagus
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Bibliotheca Therapeutica, Or, Bibliography of Therapeutics
Author: Edward John WaringPublisher:
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Category : Materia medica
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Essays and Notes on the Physiology and Diseases of Women, and on Practical Midwifery
Author: John RobertonPublisher:
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Category : Generative organs, Female
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Maladies of Empire
Author: Jim DownsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674971728
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A sweeping global history that looks beyond European urban centers to show how slavery, colonialism, and war propelled the development of modern medicine. Most stories of medical progress come with ready-made heroes. John Snow traced the origins of LondonÕs 1854 cholera outbreak to a water pump, leading to the birth of epidemiology. Florence NightingaleÕs contributions to the care of soldiers in the Crimean War revolutionized medical hygiene, transforming hospitals from crucibles of infection to sanctuaries of recuperation. Yet histories of individual innovators ignore many key sources of medical knowledge, especially when it comes to the science of infectious disease. Reexamining the foundations of modern medicine, Jim Downs shows that the study of infectious disease depended crucially on the unrecognized contributions of nonconsenting subjectsÑconscripted soldiers, enslaved people, and subjects of empire. Plantations, slave ships, and battlefields were the laboratories in which physicians came to understand the spread of disease. Military doctors learned about the importance of air quality by monitoring Africans confined to the bottom of slave ships. Statisticians charted cholera outbreaks by surveilling Muslims in British-dominated territories returning from their annual pilgrimage. The field hospitals of the Crimean War and the US Civil War were carefully observed experiments in disease transmission. The scientific knowledge derived from discarding and exploiting human life is now the basis of our ability to protect humanity from epidemics. Boldly argued and eye-opening, Maladies of Empire gives a full account of the true price of medical progress.
British Medical Journal
Author: An Essay on the General Principles of the Treatment of Spinal Curvatures
Author: Henry Robert Heather BiggPublisher:
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Category : Exercise therapy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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On Pyæmia Or Suppurative Fever, Being the Astley Cooper Prize Essay for 1868
Author: Peter Murray BraidwoodPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The Pathology and treatment of childbed
Author: Franz WinckelInjuries and Diseases of the Jaws: the Jacksonian Prize Essay of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1867
Author: Christopher Heath (Professor of Clinical Surgery in University College, London.)Publisher:
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Category : Jaw - injuries
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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