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The Black Death: Natural and Hum...
A fascinating work of detective history, The Black Death traces the causes and far-reaching consequences of this infamous outbreak of plague that spread across the continent of Europe from 1347 to ...
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The Great Mortality : An Intimat...
“Powerful, rich with details, moving, humane, and full of important lessons for an age when weapons of mass destruction are loose among us.” — Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The M...
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Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and The Haunted Men Who Made It
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A fascinating and entertaining look at the men behind the first surgical use of anesthesia—and the price they paid for their breakthrough. On Friday, October 16, 1846, only one operation was schedu...
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Viruses, Plagues, and History: P...
More people were killed by smallpox during the twentieth century--over 300 million--than by all of the wars of that period combined. In 1918 and 1919, influenza virus claimed over 50 million lives....
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Osler: Inspirations from a Great...
Sir William Osler (1849-1919), one of the world's most influential physicians at the turn of the twentieth century, remained popular long after his death largely due to his inspirational texts. Reg...
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Epidemics and History: Disease, ...
A wide ranging study of the great epidemic scourges of humanity - plague, leprosy. smallpox, syphilis, cholera and yellow fever/malaria - over the last six centuries. Sheldon Watts, applies his per...
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Microcosm: E. coli and the New S...
•Within days of being born, we are infected with billions of E. coli. They will inhabit each and every one of us until we die. E. coli is notorious for making people gravely ill, but engineered str...
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Black Death at the Golden Gate: ...
A spine-chilling saga of virulent racism, human folly, and the ultimate triumph of scientific progress. For Chinese immigrant Wong Chut King, surviving in San Francisco meant a life in the shadows....
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The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: ...
“A mosaic mystery told in vignettes, cliffhangers, curious asides, and some surreal plot twists as Raffel investigates the secrets of the man who changed infant care in America.”—NPR, 2018's Great ...
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Sauer's Herbal Cures
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company., ISBN13: 9780415923606 ISBN10: 0415923603 Material Type: hardcover
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The American Plague: The Untold ...
In this account, a journalist traces the course of the infectious disease known as yellow fever, “vividly [evoking] the Faulkner-meets-Dawn of the Dead horrors” (The New York Times Book Review) of ...
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The Speckled Monster: a Historic...
The Speckled Monster tells the dramatic story of two parents who dared to fight back against smallpox. After barely surviving the agony of smallpox themselves, they flouted eighteenth-century medic...
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The Social Transformation of American Medicine [hardcover] Paul Starr [Jan 25, 1983], ISBN13: 9780465079346 ISBN10: 0465079342 Material Type: hardcover
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The Heart Healers: The Misfits, ...
At one time, heart disease was a death sentence. In The Heart Healers, world renowned cardiologist Dr. James Forrester tells the story of the mavericks and rebels who defied the accumulated medical...
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Parkland Hospital (Images of Ame...
In 1890, Dallas was a frontier town with medical care delivered by doctors on horseback. The poorly funded city hospitals were ill equipped and had no real medication or nurses. It is difficult to ...
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