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The Story of Medicine: From Leeches to Gene Therapy
The Story of Medicine From Leeches to Gene Therapy Author:Mary Dobson In The Story of Medicine, esteemed medical historian and author Mary Dobson charts the ways in which we have fought with disease and injury over several millennia ? from the ?humors? of Hippocrates to Edward Jenner and the eradication of smallpox; from Florence Nightingale?s nursing reforms to Crick and Watson?s DNA chain. — — Beautifully realiz... more »ed with paintings, illustrations and photographs, this volume is filled with the trauma as well as the triumph of medical science: including the pain of the surgeon?s knife in the centuries before anesthetics, the body-snatchers of the nineteenth century, and the realities of battlefield surgery. Moving and revealing, here is a fascinating study of the glorious?and sometimes dangerous?pursuit of medical science. « less