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Source Book of Medical History
Original accounts ranging from Ancient Egypt and Greece to discovery of Galen, Pasteur, Lavoisier, Harvey, Parkinson, others. "...a book useful to teacher and student alike. It deserves a place on every historian’s reference shelf." — American Historical Review.
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First published June 1, 1960
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February 2, 2018
Originally published in 1934, I found this book in a relative's discard pile, and read it in 5 breathless days. It is a wonderful lay man's narrative of the history of medicine, with the added teaser that it stops in 1930, before nearly all of the innovations after X-rays occurred. No antibiotics, no chemotherapeutic S, nothing after insulin! So the reader constantly is prompted to fill in the blanks. Very well written, and somewhat reminiscent of Paul deKruif's Microbe Hunters.
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