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|aVigliani, Marguerite,|eauthor.
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|aA story of medicine in 50 discoveries /|cMarguerite Vigliani, MD and Gale Eaton ; presented by Phillip Hoose.
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|aStory of medicine in fifty discoveries
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|aThomaston, Maine :|bTilbury House Publishers,|c[2017]
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|c©2017
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|axvi, 303 pages :|billustrations (some color), maps (color map) ;|c25 cm
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|aThe story in 50 series
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 251-297) and index.
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|aWhat's a discovery? -- The iceman: forensic analysis of a neolithic killing -- A parade of ants: magic and folk healing -- Massage: rubbing out demons and kinks -- Secrets of the dead: ancient Egyptian mummifiers and surgeons -- 170 BC: sleep therapy at the Temples of Asklepios -- AD 200: Galen discovers nerves and humors -- 900: al-Razi and evidence-based medicine in the Middle Ages -- 1508: Da Vinci's heart -- 1600: the Chamberlen family secret -- 1670: looking through Van Leeuwenhoek's tiny microscopes -- 1721: fighting smallpox and public opinion in colonial Boston -- 1747: limeys and the conquest of scurvy -- 1776: a folk remedy for congestive heart failure -- 1799: heroic bloodletting, leech mania, and discovering what doesn't work -- 1816: Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope -- 1828: cutting the stone -- 1846: laughing gas -- 1847: wash your hands -- 1848: monster soup -- 1854: cholera and epidemiology -- 1867: Gregor Mendel and inherited traits -- 1870: discovering ancient skull surgeries -- 1881: spontaneous generation and the germ theory of disease -- 1882: tuberculosis emerges from the miasma -- 1894: a barrel of snakes and an antitoxin -- 1896: the discovery of x-rays -- 18989: a small-game hunter fights bubonic plague -- 1898: viruses borrow life support from tobacco leaves and humans -- 1900: Marie Curie's lab glows in the dark -- 1901: making blood transfusions safe -- 1905: hormones and endocrinology -- 1907: Typhoid Mary becomes the world's most notorious cook -- 1909: Ehrlich's magic bullet and the beginnings of chemotherapy -- 1922: controlling diabetes -- 1929: Fleming's dirty dishes give us penicillin -- 1930: psychosurgery -- 1939-1955: rat poison for a U.S. president -- 1944: discovering DNA -- 1945: a miracle drug in the sewage -- 1945: saving lives with sausage casings, washing machines, and juice cans -- 1951: Frankenstein and the heart machines -- 1967: Baruch Blumberg discovers a cancer-causing virus -- 1967: the first heart transplant -- 1972: a magic bullet from Chinese medicines -- 1978: the first test tube baby -- 1983: preventing cancers -- 1998:MMR vaccine, autism, discovery, and fraud -- 2011: bionic parts -- 2013: poop therapy for the human microbiome -- 2016: researching the Zika Virus.
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|aDiscusses the circumstances surrounding fifty medicinal discoveries in history, from Mesopotamian pharmaceuticals to modern prosthetics.
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|aDiscoveries in science.
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