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    Gill 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.
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    Books: History - LC Classification (Downstairs)
    R133 .P28 2016
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