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- BookGill Paul.Summary: Takes readers on a 12,000-year journey to explore significant items that have advanced medical knowledge and practice. The fifty objects range from the everyday (a bottle of Aspirin) to singular medical advances (heart transplant pioneer Christian Bernard on the cover of TIME magazine). The objects are presented chronologically and described in two to four pages with illustrations, 150 beautiful archive images in all. Fact boxes note Location, Date, and Field, for example, epidemiology. Engaging text describes the artifacts in their social and cultural context, as well as their role in disease treatment and prevention.
Contents:
Neolithic Trepanned Skulls
The Edwin Smith Papyrus
Clay Tablets from Mesopotamia
Atharva Veda
Huangchi Neijing
The Tree of Hippocrates
The Aqua Appia
Dioscorides' Materia Medica
Galen's Phlebotome
The Hôtel-Dieu
Ten Treatises on the Eye
The School of Salerno
Avicenna's Tomb
Plague Doctor's Mask
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Santorio Santorio's Thermoscope
Harvey's Diagram of Blood Circulation
Chamberlen's Forceps
Van Leeuwenhoek's Microscope
The Cinchona Tree
Edward Jenner's Lancet
Laënnec's Stethoscope
Morton's Ether Inhaler
TB Sanatorium in Görbersdorf
John Snow's Cholera Map
Florence Nightingale's Lamp
Louis Pasteur's Flask
The Snellen Eye Chart
The Red Cross Symbol
Joseph Lister's Donkey Engine
The X-ray Machine
Bayer Aspirin
Sigmund Freud's Couch
Harold Gillies' Tubed Pedicle
Spanish Flu Mask
Lilly's Insulin Syringe
The Iron Lung
Alexander Fleming's Petri Dish
Bryukhonenko's Autojektor
Willem Kolff's Artificial Kidney
World Health Organization Flag
Crick and Watson's Double Helix
Cigarette Package Health Warning
The First Heart Transplant
MRI Scanner
Surgical Robots
AIDS Awareness Ribbon
Stem Cells
Thought-Controlled Prosthesis
Protective Clothing for Ebola.