Measly Medicine
Material type:
- 9780439955812
- 614 ARN
Item type | Current library | Home library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Booku Library Services | Booku Library Services | Health & Fitness | 614 ARN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 9780439955812 |
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This is a romp through the history of healthcare, hosted by the inimitable Dr Grimgrave. It includes chapters on ancient medicine - Stone Age trepanning, Chinese medicine, Romans, Greeks: the dodgy diagnostics of the Middle Ages; the bloody operations before anaesthetics and hygiene were implemented; Florence Nightingale's nursing revolution and development of public; health; Life-saving surgery available today, including plastic surgery and transplants; and modern miracles - new drugs and treatment.
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