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Medicine Men: The Birth of Modern Medicine
Medicine Men The Birth of Modern Medicine Author:Thomas Dormandy Medicine Men: The Birth of Modern Medicine focuses on medical history in its wider historical context, and is intended for the general reader as well as medical professionals. Written by a doctor, the four sections each focus on a different pioneer and a different branch of medicine: medicine, obstetrics, surgery, and pathology. Thomas... more » Dormandy looks at the great advances in medicine achieved by Rene Laennec and the stethoscope, Ignac Semmelweis and the eradication of childbirth fever, Joseph Lister who used microbiology to suppress germs, and Walter Reed and the microbe hunters, who controlled yellow fever.« less