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What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)User Review - Allison - GoodreadsRelative to other pieces of writing on medical history, this falls short. Though I suppose the idea of summarizing medical history into a very short book was not to give an eloquent retelling of this ... Read full review Review: The History of Medicine: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)User Review - Nancy - GoodreadsGood overview of the history of medicine. Nigel ferguson's Civilization the West and the Rest is more comprehensive. Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrases19th century anatomy ancient animals anthrax auscultation autopsy Avicenna bacteria bacteriology bacterium became bedside began Black Death blood brain Britain called cancer cause cells Chadwick cholera clinical medicine culture death decades Despite developed diagnoses dissecting doctors dominated drug early 19th century early-modern effective epidemic diseases Europe experience experimental fever French clinicians Galen germ theory German Greek health and disease heart Hermann Boerhaave Hippocrates Hippocratic historians holism hospital medicine humours important individual infection inoculated institutions Islamic John Koch’s laboratory Laennec late lesion living London Louis Louis Pasteur malaria medical research medical schools medical science medieval micro-organisms microscope modern medicine nature nosology ofthe organs outbreak pandemic Paris Pasteur pathological patients penicillin philosophy phthisis physical physician physiology plague Poor Law practitioners preventing psychiatric public health movement resonance Robert Koch scientific scientist smallpox stethoscope surgeons surgery surgical symptoms therapeutic therapy tissues treatise treatment tuberculosis vaccination Wellcome Library Western Bibliographic information
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