| Edition |
Revised and expanded edition |
| Descript |
xxiii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Note |
"Originally published in English as A short history of medicine by the Ronald Press Company, New York, 1955. Revised edition 1968."--Title page verso |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-233) and index |
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Paleopathology and paleomedicine -- Primitive medicine -- Medicine of ancient civilizations -- Ancient India and China -- Greek medicine : physicians, priests, philosophers -- Greek medicine : Hippocratic medicine -- Greek medicine : Alexandria and Rome -- Medieval medicine -- Renaissance medicine -- Medicine in the seventeenth century -- Medicine in the eighteenth century -- The clinical schools of the first half of the nineteenth century -- The basic sciences during the nineteenth century -- Clinical medicine of the second half of the nineteenth century -- Microbiology -- Surgery and gynecology in the nineteenth century -- The new specialism of the nineteenth century -- Public health and professional developments in the nineteenth century -- Medicine in the United States prior to 1900 -- Epilogue : trends in twentieth-century medicine |
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Medicine -- History
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History of Medicine
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| Alt Author |
Rosenberg, Charles E., writer of foreword
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Haushofer, Lisa
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