Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
Book Description
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1384
Book Description
Sex, Sects and Society
Author: Russell DaviesPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786832151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
This book will provide an educational and entertaining read. It will explain the contradictions and complexities of the Welsh national identity. This book will reveal the hardships and horrors of some people's lives. It will reveal how religion and superstition ebbed and flowed together.
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Biographia Britannica: Or The Lives Of The Most Eminent Persons Who Have Flourished in Great Britain And Ireland, From the Earliest Ages, Down to the Present Times: Collected from the Best Authorities, Both Printed and Manuscript, And Digested in the Manner of Mr Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary
Author: Andrew KippisThe Early History of Surgery
Author: William John BishopPublisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9781566197984
Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
"Includes graphic accounts of the evolution of wound treatment; blood transfusion; body snatching for the teaching of anatomy; and surgical instruments. Much of The Early History of Surgery is based on the original writings of the surgeons themselves."--Publisher's description
The Dictionary of National Biography, Founded in 1882 by George Smith
Author: The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine
Author: Thomas HellingPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1643139002
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A startling narrative revealing the impressive medical and surgical advances that quickly developed as solutions to the horrors unleashed by World War I. The Great War of 1914-1918 burst on the European scene with a brutality to mankind not yet witnessed by the civilized world. Modern warfare was no longer the stuff of chivalry and honor; it was a mutilative, deadly, and humbling exercise to wipe out the very presence of humanity. Suddenly, thousands upon thousands of maimed, beaten, and bleeding men surged into aid stations and hospitals with injuries unimaginable in their scope and destruction. Doctors scrambled to find some way to salvage not only life but limb. The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine provides a startling and graphic account of the efforts of teams of doctors and researchers to quickly develop medical and surgical solutions. Those problems of gas gangrene, hemorrhagic shock, gas poisoning, brain trauma, facial disfigurement, broken bones, and broken spirits flooded hospital beds, stressing caregivers and prompting medical innovations that would last far beyond the Armistice of 1918 and would eventually provide the backbone of modern medical therapy. Thomas Helling’s description of events that shaped refinements of medical care is a riveting account of the ingenuity and resourcefulness of men and women to deter the total destruction of the human body and human mind. His tales of surgical daring, industrial collaboration, scientific discovery, and utter compassion provide an understanding of the horror that laid a foundation for the medical wonders of today. The marvels of resuscitation, blood transfusion, brain surgery, X-rays, and bone setting all had their beginnings on the battlefields of France. The influenza contagion in 1918 was an ominous forerunner of the frightening pandemic of 2020-2021. For anyone curious about the true terrors of war and the miracles of modern medicine, this is a must read.
Eminent Welshmen
Author: T. R. RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
The Welsh in their History
Author: Gwyn A. WilliamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000593770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
This book, first published in 1982, is a sequence of interrelated essays and aims to redirect attention to some critical moments in Welsh history from Roman times to the present. Each of the essays breaks new ground, argues for a new approach or opens a new discourse.
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