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  • A Peep into Medical Antiquity
    N. H. Kassabian M.D.
    A Peep into Medical Antiquity is a work originally based a speech by N. H. Kassabian, M.D., which explores the history of medicine according to the ancient peoples, including the Greeks, Egyptians, Assyrians, and Israelites. The original author, who delivered this speech before the Kent County Medical Society in April of 1911, was one of the most respected physicians of his day...
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    10,87 €

  • The Health of the Presidents
    John R Bumgarner / John R. Bumgarner
    Surrounded by well-meaning aides, physicians sworn to confidentiality, and in some cases, sycophants, the president of the United States usually keeps the state of his health well-guarded from the American public. Though the intention of the 25th Amendment is to provide for the removal of an impaired president, the level of discretion involved in such a decision has caused m...
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    56,97 €

  • Biblical and Talmudic Medicine
    Julius Preuss / Fred Rosner
    This is a translation of the 1911 Biblisch-Talmudiesche Medizin , an extensively researched text that gathers the medical and hygienic references found in the Jewish sacred, historical, and legal literatures, written by German physician and scholar Julius Preuss (1861-1913). ...
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    118,53 €

  • The Man Who Saved The World From Smallpox
    George F. Smith
    Doctor Edward Jenner, born in the early eighteenth century, was the discoverer of a preventive for smallpox, the greatest killer of mankind. This contagious disease destroys its victims in 10 to 14 days. Those who survive frequently are left horribly scarred or partially or completely blind.The story of Doctor Jenner and smallpox is told by guests at a dinner party at an old En...
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    23,20 €

  • Medicine in Milford
    Robert Kerin
    The general topic of medicine is subject to change, almost without notice. New medications and new procedures are commonplace. Medicine in Milford portrays a trip on the time train from the 1950s into the third millennium, on that subject. It provides a genealogical glimpse of the medical family constituting the engine of medical care in the Milford Hospital, and in the comm...
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    15,17 €

  • The Man Who Saved The World From Smallpox
    George FSmith
    Doctor Edward Jenner, born in the early eighteenth century, was the discoverer of a preventive for smallpox, the greatest killer of mankind. This contagious disease destroys its victims in 10 to 14 days. Those who survive frequently are left horribly scarred or partially or completely blind.The story of Doctor Jenner and smallpox is told by guests at a dinner party at an old En...
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    34,44 €

  • Galen
    Galen
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    109,20 €

  • Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations
    Peter McDonald
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    51,18 €

  • In the Grip of Disease
    Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd / Geoffrey ERLloyd
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    88,81 €

  • Quinine
    Fiammetta Rocco
    The fascinating story of the intensive search to discover and possess quinine--the only known cure for malaria Malaria kills someone every 12 minutes in Africa. Now known mostly as a disease of the tropics, malaria led to the demise of the Roman Empire 2,000 years ago and ravaged Europe for years afterwards. At the start of the 17th century, Jesuit priests developed quinine, an...
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    17,60 €

  • George M. Abouna
    Samir Johna
    This is the true story of a man who rose from the depth of poverty to become a pioneer in modern medicine. Born in a small village in Iraq, and raised by a poor family, he met and conquered many adversities in his pursuit of a better living and his goal of becoming a physician. His chosen path was briefly derailed when he was granted a full scholarship to study engineering in U...
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    20,55 €

  • Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages, The
    J. F. C. Hecker / JFCHecker
    The Dancing Mania or Dancing Plague remains an unresolved mystery. First seen in the 13th century, it continued to appear sporadically over the following three centuries. What compelled groups of people in Germany, Holland, Italy and other countries to engage in mass, frenzied dancing is still not known. Various causes have been suggested, including demonic possession, the b...
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    21,34 €

  • The Life and Death of Smallpox
    Glynn Ian / Ian Glynn / Jenifer Glynn
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    61,38 €

  • Plagues & Poxes
    Alfred Jay Bollett
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    42,54 €

  • Of The Epidemics
    Hippocrates
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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  • On Ancient Medicine
    Hippocrates
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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  • On Fractures
    Hippocrates
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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  • On Regimen In Acute Diseases
    Hippocrates
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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  • Instruments Of Reduction
    Hippocrates
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    13,02 €

  • Napoleon’s Campaign In Russia Anno 1812 Medico Historical
    Achilles Rose
    ''Napoleon’s Campaign In Russia Anno 1812 Medico Historical'' by Achilles Rose is a comprehensive account of the French invasion of Russia in 1812. The book provides a detailed analysis of the military tactics used by Napoleon Bonaparte and his army, as well as the medical care provided to soldiers during the campaign. Rose draws on a range of primary sources, including letters...
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    29,34 €

  • Health, Disease, and Illness
    In the 1850s, 'Drapetomania' was the medical term for a disease found among black slaves in the United States. The main symptom was a strange desire to run away from their masters. In earlier centuries gout was understood as a metabolic disease of the affluent, so much so that it became a badge of uppercrust honor-and a medical excuse to avoid hard work. Today, is there such a ...
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  • Health, disease and society in Europe, 1800-1930
    Deborah Brunton
    Provides readers with unrivalled access to a comprehensive range of sources on the provision of medical care during the nineteenth centrury ...
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    29,17 €

  • The Surgery of Henri de Mondeville
    Henri De Mondeville / Leonard D. Rosenman D. Rosenman M. D. / Leonard DRosenman DRosenman MD.
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  • The Growth of Medicine from the Earliest Times to about 1800
    Albert Henry Buck
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,33 €

  • Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health
    Heather Munro Prof. Prescott / Heather Munro ProfPrescott / Janet Golden / Richard Alan Meckel
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    97,53 €

  • Making Kedjom Medicine
    Kent Maynard
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    97,24 €

  • Health, disease and society in Europe, 1500-1800
    Ole Peter Grell / Peter Elmer
    Health, disease and society in Europe 1500-1800 considers how the body was viewed by the medical profession from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, and challenges established ideas in the field of medical history. It examines the provision of medical care in context and how it was shaped by the social, religious, political and cultural concerns of the age. Arranged thematica...
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    28,82 €

  • Medicine and Science at Exeter Cathedral Library
    Exeter Cathedral Library, established in the eleventh century, houses medical and scientific books from all periods. This catalogue is the first comprehensive treatment of the collection to be published, and has over 2700 entries, including material added in the 1990s. ...
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    144,81 €

  • Hepatitis B
    Baruch S. Blumberg / Baruch SBlumberg
    About 375 million people are infected with the hepatitis B virus. It has killed more people than AIDS and also causes millions of cases of liver cancer. The discovery of this deadly virus and the vaccine against it--a vaccine that is sharply decreasing the infection rate worldwide and is probably the first effective cancer vaccine--was one of the great triumphs of twentieth-cen...
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  • Bilharzia
    John Farley
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    74,76 €