Doctors And Discoveries

Author : John Simmons
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618152766
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctors and Discoveries written by John Simmons and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of western medicine through the lives of its major contributors, profiling such well-known figures as Hippocrates and Louis Pasteur, as well as lesser-known scientists including Elle Metchnikoff and Samuel Hahnemann.

Author : Selene Yeager
Publisher : Rodale
ISBN 13 : 1594866635
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doctors Book of Food Remedies written by Selene Yeager and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of tips to help you boost immunity, fight fatigue, ease arthritis, and protect your health.

Author : Morton A. Meyers
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611451620
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Happy Accidents written by Morton A. Meyers and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century.

Author : Robert W. Winters
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 151071247X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Accidental Medical Discoveries written by Robert W. Winters and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the world’s most important and life-saving devices and techniques were often discovered purely by accident. Serendipity, timing, and luck played a part in the discovery of unintentional cures and breakthroughs: A plastic shard in an RAF pilot’s eye leads to the use of plastic for contact lenses. The inability to remove a titanium chamber from rabbit’s bone leads to dental implants. Viagra was discovered by a group of chemists, working in the lab to find a new drug to alleviate the pain of angina pectoris. A stretch of five weeks of unusually warm weather in 1928 played a role in assisting Dr. Alexander Fleming in his analysis of bacterial growth and the discovery of penicillin. After studying the effects of the venom injected by the bite of a deadly pit viper snake, chemists developed a groundbreaking drug that works to control blood pressure. Accidental Medical Discoveries is an entertaining and enlightening look at the creation of 25 medical inventions that have changed the world – unintentionally. The book is presented in a lively and engaging way, and will appeal to a wide variety of readers, from history buffs to trivia fanatics to those in the medical profession.

Author : Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307807894
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doctors written by Sherwin B. Nuland and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-19 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way. How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.

Author : Jon Queijo
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0131372408
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breakthrough! written by Jon Queijo and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are you alive right now? Chances are, you owe your life to one of the remarkable medical discoveries in this book. Maybe it was vaccines. Or antibiotics. Or X-rays. Revolutionary medical breakthroughs like these haven’t just changed the way we treat disease, they’ve transformed how we understand ourselves and the world we live in. In Breakthrough! How the 10 Greatest Discoveries in Medicine Saved Millions and Changed Our View of the World, Jon Queijo tells the hidden stories behind history’s most amazing medical discoveries. This isn’t dry history: These are life-and-death mysteries uncovered, tales of passionate, often-mocked individuals who stood their ground and were proven right. From germs to genetics, the ancient Hippocrates to the cutting edge, these are stories that have changed the world–and, quite likely, saved your life.

Author : Logan Clendening
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486206211
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Source Book of Medical History written by Logan Clendening and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1960-01-01 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred and twenty-four selections survey the outstanding writings and discoveries in all aspects of medicine

Author : Bruce C. Paton
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lewis & Clark written by Bruce C. Paton and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines early nineteenth-century medical standards and techniques and discusses how they were applied to Lewis and Clark's 1803 expedition to open the American West.

Author : Sherwin B. Nuland
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039332625X
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries) written by Sherwin B. Nuland and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative of one of the key turning points in medical history.

Author : Meyer Friedman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300173550
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine's 10 Greatest Discoveries written by Meyer Friedman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1675, Antony van Leeuwenhoek, an unlearned haberdasher from Delft, placed a drop of rainwater under his microscope and detected thousands of tiny animals in it. Leeuwenhoek proceeded to examine the microscopic activity of his spittle, teeth plaque, and feces, and as the result of his findings the field of bacteriology was born. Some two hundred years later, Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Wurzburg, invited his wife to his laboratory, asked her to place her hand on an unexposed photographic plate, turned on an electric current, and showed this terrified woman a picture of the bones of her hand. And so came the discovery of the X-ray. This absorbing book is the first to describe these and eight other monumental medical discoveries throughout history, bringing to life the scientific pioneers responsible for them and the excitement, frustrations, and jealousies that surrounded the final achievements. Two distinguished physicians, Meyer Friedman and Gerald W. Friedland, have drawn on their many years of experience as well as on that of world-renowned antiquarian book dealers, physician collectors of old and new medical publications, and medical school professors to single out these medical breakthroughs from thousands of candidates, and, in several cases, to provide information never before available. Their engrossing stories of the ten most significant discoveries will be read with enjoyment by anyone fascinated by the mysteries of medicine.