A Brief History of Medicine Free

Author: Paul Strathern
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: B008SMZC7S
Category: Medical

A Brief History of Medicine: From Hippocrates' Four Humours to Crick and Watson's Double Helix (Brief History Series)

The foundations for the scientific study of the body and modern Western medicine as we know it started with William Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system in the early 17th century. Download A Brief History of Medicine medical books for free.
But its roots stretch back as far as ancient Greece, when medicine first departed from the divine and the mystical and moved toward observation and logic. Its early development was slow, constrained by the taboo around dissection (only external symptoms could be used for diagnosis), as well as superstition and mysticism (illness was the work of demons and pixies and curable only by penitence). Paul Strathern steers us skillfully through the maze of discoveries, diseases, and wrong turns that have made medicine what it is today-super efficient, high tech, and Get A Brief History of Medicine our bestseller medical books.

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But its roots stretch back as far as ancient Greece, when medicine first departed from the divine and the mystical and moved toward observation and logic Paul Strathern steers us skillfully through the maze of discoveries, diseases, and wrong turns that have made medicine what it is today-super efficient, high tech, and

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