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100 1 $aPaul, Gill,$d1960-$eauthor.
245 12 $aA history of medicine in 50 objects /$cGill Paul.
246 30 $aMedicine in 50 objects
246 3 $aHistory of medicine in fifty objects
264 1 $aBuffalo, New York :$bFirefly Books,$c[2016]
300 $a224 pages :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 218-219) and index.
520 $aTakes readers on a 12,000-year journey to explore significant items that have advanced medical knowledge and practice. The fifty objects range from the everyday (a bottle of Aspirin) to singular medical advances (heart transplant pioneer Christian Bernard on the cover of TIME magazine). The objects are presented chronologically and described in two to four pages with illustrations, 150 beautiful archive images in all. Fact boxes note Location, Date, and Field, for example, epidemiology. Engaging text describes the artifacts in their social and cultural context, as well as their role in disease treatment and prevention.
505 00 $tNeolithic Trepanned Skulls -$tThe Edwin Smith Papyrus -$tClay Tablets from Mesopotamia -$tAtharva Veda -$tHuangchi Neijing -$tThe Tree of Hippocrates -$tThe Aqua Appia -$tDioscorides' Materia Medica -$tGalen's Phlebotome -$tThe Hotel-Dieu -$tTen Treatises on the Eye -$tThe School of Salerno -$tAvicenna's Tomb -$tPlague Doctor's Mask -$tDe Humani Corporis Fabrica -$tSantorio Santorio's Thermoscope -$tHarvey's Diagram of Blood Circulation -$tChamberlen's Forceps -$tVan Leeuwenhoek's Microscope -$tThe Cinchona Tree -$tEdward Jenner's Lancet -$tLaennec's Stethoscope -$tMorton's Ether Inhaler -$tTB Sanatorium in Grbersdorf -$tJohn Snow's Cholera Map -$tFlorence Nightingale's Lamp -$tLouis Pasteur's Flask -$tThe Snellen Eye Chart -$tThe Red Cross Symbol -$tJoseph Lister's Donkey Engine -$tThe X-ray Machine -$tBayer Aspirin -$tSigmund Freud's Couch -$tHarold Gillies' Tubed Pedicle -$tSpanish Flu Mask -$tLilly's Insulin Syringe -$tThe Iron Lung -$tAlexander Fleming's Petri Dish -$tBryukhonenko's Autojektor -$tWillem Kolff's Artificial Kidney -$tWorld Health Organization Flag -$tCrick and Watson's Double Helix -$tCigarette Package Health Warning -$tThe First Heart Transplant -$tMRI Scanner -$tSurgical Robots -$tAIDS Awareness Ribbon -$tStem Cells -$tThought-Controlled Prosthesis -$tProtective Clothing for Ebola.
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