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The Age of Miracles: Medicine and Surgery in the Nineteenth Century - Softcover

Guy R. Williams (author)

 
9780897332859: The Age of Miracles: Medicine and Surgery in the Nineteenth Century

Synopsis

The history of medical treatment from the barbarous era of the eighteenth century through the revolutionary and often bizarre changes of the nineteenth century: the introduction of anesthesia and antiseptics, hospital reform and explorations of "alternative" medicine.

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Review

"dutiful survey of the development... of the foundation upon which much of modern medicine is based..." -- "Washington Post"

"Pleasant reading..." -- "Booklist"

Synopsis

Looks at developments in medicine during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including surgery, anesthetics, x-rays, and treatment of the mentally ill.

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9780094623606: Age Of Miracles: Medicine and Surgery in the Nineteenth Century

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ISBN 10:  0094623600 ISBN 13:  9780094623606
Publisher: Constable, 1981
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