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The Royal Art of Poison- Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul by Eleanor Herman
epub |eng | 2018-09-09 | Author:Eleanor Herman

CONTEMPORARY POSTMORTEM Henri’s physicians and surgeons conducted an autopsy and announced that they found “a lung and the liver corrupt, a kidney stone and an injury to the brain.” Kidney ...
( Category: Europe February 6,2019 )
The Drug Hunters by Donald R. Kirsch
epub |eng | 2016-11-21 | Author:Donald R. Kirsch

10 From Blue Death to Beta Blockers The Library of Epidemiological Medicine John Snow’s map of cholera “Superior doctors prevent the disease from happening, mediocre doctors treat the disease before ...
( Category: History & Philosophy January 24,2019 )
Deadly Companions by Dorothy H.; Crawford
mobi |eng | 2007-03-15 | Author:Dorothy H.; Crawford [Crawford, Dorothy H.;]

Figure 5.1 Title page from Bartholomew Steber’s Syphilis, 1497 or 1498 The cause of these impediments or infyrmytes doth come many wayes, it maye come by lyenge in the sheets ...
( Category: Medicine January 23,2019 )
The social transformation of American medicine by Starr Paul 1949-
epub |eng | 1982-01-11 | Author:Starr, Paul, 1949-

American over sixty-five a monthly pension of $200 on two conditions: that they retire from work and immediately spend the money. Though it was a fantastic and implausible scheme—if carried ...
( Category: History January 12,2019 )
American Pandemic by Bristow Nancy K
epub |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Bristow, Nancy K.

|| 5 || “The terrible and wonderful experience” Forgetting and Remembering in the Aftermath In a lecture before public health professionals in October 1919, Mazyck P. Ravenel, Professor of Preventive ...
( Category: Medicine January 3,2019 )
The Symptom and the Subject by Holmes Brooke;
epub |eng | 2014-12-10 | Author:Holmes, Brooke;

TAKING CARE More than any other extant medical text, On Regimen (ca. 400 bce) attests the growing interest in the late fifth century in the care of the physical body.120 ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations December 11,2018 )
After Eunuchs by Howard Chiang
epub |eng | | Author:Howard Chiang

Hermaphroditism as a Natural Anomaly Escalated publicity on surgical attempts at changing sex, on top of a novel biochemical interpretation of the castrated body, led to a renewed interest in ...
( Category: History & Philosophy December 11,2018 )
A History of Medicine in 50 Discoveries by Marguerite Vigliani
epub |eng | 2017-12-09 | Author:Marguerite Vigliani

Microchimerism and Transplant Surgery DIn 1992, Dr. Thomas Starzl discovered that white blood cells from donors were still found in the blood and tissues of humans who had undergone successful ...
( Category: Personal Health December 10,2018 )
Skin by nina g. jablonski
epub |eng | 2018-07-03 | Author:nina g. jablonski

( Category: Anthropology December 10,2018 )
Framing the moron: The social construction of feeble-mindedness in the American eugenic era (Disability History MUP) by Gerald V O'Brien
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-31 | Author:Gerald V O'Brien [O'Brien, Gerald V]

Because of the ‘flood’ of immigrants who were presumed to be feeble-minded or otherwise ‘dysgenic’, the work of the eugenicists was portrayed by some as a Sisyphean task so long ...
( Category: Sociology November 24,2018 )
The Great Plague by A. Lloyd Moote
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:A. Lloyd Moote [Moote, A. Lloyd]

Map 3. London Medical Marketplace during the Great Plague The emergency medical committee approved a single surgeon to assist each of these physicians. Dr. Hodges chose Thomas Harman, whose Finch ...
( Category: Medicine November 21,2018 )
The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth by Thomas Morris
epub |eng | 2018-11-19 | Author:Thomas Morris

Edward T. Hinckley, of Wareham, Mass., then mate of the bark Andrews, commanded by James L. Nye, of Sandwich, Mass., sailed some two years and a half since (we find ...
( Category: Humor November 21,2018 )
Medicine, Religion, and Magic in Early Stuart England by Ofer Hadass
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Ofer Hadass

Attaining Divine Knowledge Speculation about angels reached its peak in the thirteenth century with the theological debates of Bonaventure and Thomas Aquinas, both of whom had developed systematic, comprehensive angelologies. ...
( Category: Religious Studies November 20,2018 )
Asthma by Jackson Mark;
epub |eng | 2009-11-19 | Author:Jackson, Mark;

11. An American magazine advertisement for stramonium cigarettes, c.1959. (Courtesy of the Advertising Archives, London) New treatments for asthma were also derived either from plants or from human hormones during ...
( Category: Medicine November 20,2018 )
Medicine's Michelangelo by Francine Mary Netter
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Francine Mary Netter

With the loss of Dr. Frantz as guest editor for the musculoskeletal volume, Frank placed that project on hold and in 1979 began working on the second edition of volume ...
( Category: Basic Sciences November 12,2018 )

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