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A Brief History of Medicine: From Hippocrates' Four Humours to Crick and Watson's Double Helix
A Brief History of Medicine From Hippocrates' Four Humours to Crick and Watson's Double Helix
Author: Paul Strathern
The foundations for the scientific study of the body and modern Western medicine as we know it started with William Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system in the early 17th century. But its roots stretch back as far as ancient Greece, when medicine first departed from the divine and the mystical and moved toward observation and logic. Its ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780786715251
ISBN-10: 0786715251
Publication Date: 7/10/2005
Pages: 280
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Publisher: Running Press
Book Type: Paperback
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