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This materia medica - a book of collected knowledge about medicines and their properties - was originally written in Persian by Noureddeen Mohammed Abdullah al-Shirazi (fl.1625-40), physician to the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan, to whom it was dedicated...

Galen (Claudius Galenus, 129-c. 199 CE) is the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world whose writings have survived. A Greek from a wealthy family, raised and educated in the Greek city of Pergamon, he acquired his medical education by travelling...

Originally published in 1939, this book presents a comprehensive study of hydrophthalmia, also known as buphthalmia, incorporating information on causes, treatment and outlook as they were understood at the time of publication. An approach based on...

Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Pastoral, theological, recreational, and medical...

I. In some periods of the past Netherlands medicine has played a major role in the evolution of European medicine; today its history still enjoys much in terest even at the other side of the Ocean. In this bibliography it has been my endeavour to compile...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782759822294Author Patrick MornetFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint EDP SciencesPublisher EDP SciencesWeight(grams) 347g

Galen (Claudius Galenus, 129-c. 199 CE) is the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world whose writings have survived. A Greek from a wealthy family, raised and educated in the Greek city of Pergamon, he acquired his medical education by travelling...

Galen (Claudius Galenus, 129-c. 199 CE) is the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world whose writings have survived. A Greek from a wealthy family, raised and educated in the Greek city of Pergamon, he acquired his medical education by travelling...

First published in 1925, this two-volume work deals with the blood's role in respiration. This second volume deals with haemoglobin as a chemical substance. The text is illustrated with diagrams and drawings relating to, among other things, haemoglobin's...

In this second volume of his history of epidemics in Britain, controversial physician Charles Creighton continues his examination of diseases in Britain from the time of Charles II to the time of the volume's publication in 1894. The work is broken down...

Originally published in 1915, this book presents the findings of an investigation into outbreaks of tropical sprue, an intestinal inflammation, on the island of Sri Lanka. Bahr analyses the various symptoms of the disease, which appeared to affect...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986936338Author Suzanne HumphriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Dissolving IllusionsPublisher Dissolving IllusionsWeight(grams) 753g

This collection draws together original scholarship from international contributors on a range of aspects of professional and semi-professional medical work and its relations to British culture. It combines a diverse spectrum of scholarly approaches,...

First published in 1941, this book contains the substance of the Linacre Lecture for that year, delivered by Sir Walter Langdon-Brown at St John's College, Cambridge. It presents a concise account regarding 'the origin of witchcraft from primitive...

Polio infantile paralysis was until recently a greatly feared disease, but is now preventable by a vaccine, which has largely eradicated it from the Western hemisphere; a global eradication campaign is underway. This book tells of the story of polio in...

In this absorbing work of medical history, the physician and writer John Aikin (1747-1822) brings together biographical information on a selection of Britain's early medics, shedding light on the lives, works and quirks of more than fifty medical...

Mediterranean quarantines investigates how quarantine, the centuries-old practice of collective defence against epidemics, experienced significant transformations from the eighteenth century in the Mediterranean Sea, its original birthplace. The new...

This historical reference highlights the people, diseases, and innovations that have impacted the health of soldiers and civilians during wartime, focusing on U.S. conflicts from early colonial skirmishes to the current War on Terror. This intriguing...

This open access book offers new insights into the Venetian physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561–1636) and into the origins of quantification in medicine. At the turn of the seventeenth century, Sanctorius developed instruments to measure and quantify...

This lively book, with its spectacular illustrations, tells the interesting story of the life of Max Broedel, the pioneering medical illustrator and founder of the Department of Art as Applied to Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.Book...

Easy to read and to use, this A-to-Z mini-encyclopedia covers the most important medical innovations of the last 200 years. Medical innovation is an extremely important topic-and one to which relatively little study has been devoted. This volume is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734030808Author William J KellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 652Imprint William J Keller PhDPublisher William J Keller PhDWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545667293Author William H Adams M DFormat HardbackPage Count 626Imprint Liberty Hill PublishingPublisher Liberty Hill PublishingWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545665503Author William H Adams M DFormat PaperbackPage Count 610Imprint Liberty Hill PublishingPublisher Liberty Hill PublishingWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227363732Author A Michael SylmFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint A. Michael SylmPublisher A. Michael SylmWeight(grams) 77g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887561422Author Guy BreshearsFormat PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint Guy BreshearsPublisher Guy BreshearsWeight(grams) 1483g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932109368Author Frederick HenryFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint Ross & PerryPublisher Ross & PerryWeight(grams) 794g

This book on the history of palliative care, 1500-1970 traces the historical roots of modern palliative care in Europe to the rise of the hospice movement in the 1960s. The author discusses largely forgotten premodern concepts like cura palliativa and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648832604Author Anton P SohnFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Totalrecall Publications, Inc.Publisher Totalrecall Publications, Inc.Weight(grams) 903g

The physician and author John Ayrton Paris (1785-1856), several of whose other medical and popular works have been reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection, published this book on the significance of diet to health in 1826. In the first part, Paris...

Informed by the memories of African nurses, this book highlights the experiences of men and women who provided nursing services in Zimbabwe’s hospitals in the twentieth–century. It argues that in their subordinate positions, and within their various...

Originally published in 1915, this book presents the content of the Rede Lecture for that year, which was delivered by Norman Moore at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in St Bartholomew's Hospital and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503598925Author Michele NicolettiFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Brepols PublishersPublisher Brepols PublishersWeight(grams) 993g

Born in Cornwall, John Davy (1790-1868) physiologist and anatomist, and the younger brother of the distinguished chemist Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), was one of the most prolific medical experts of his day. After taking a medical degree from Edinburgh...

Galen (Claudius Galenus, 129-c. 199 CE) is the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world whose writings have survived. A Greek from a wealthy family, raised and educated in the Greek city of Pergamon, he acquired his medical education by travelling...

Population Politics in the Tropics explores colonial population policies in Angola between 1890 and 1945 from a transimperial perspective. Using a wide array of previously unused sources and multilingual archival research from Angola, Portugal and...

Galen (Claudius Galenus, 129-c. 199 CE) is the most famous physician of the Greco-Roman world whose writings have survived. A Greek from a wealthy family, raised and educated in the Greek city of Pergamon, he acquired his medical education by travelling...

The most famous nineteenth-century British reformer of care for the mentally ill and disabled was undoubtedly John Conolly, whose 1856 Treatment of the Insane without Mechanical Restraints is also reissued in this series. However, Conolly's work at the...

A physician and medical reformer enthused by the scientific and cultural progress of the Enlightenment as it took hold in Britain, Thomas Percival (1740-1804) wrote on many topics, including public health and demography. His influential publication on...

Originally published in 1937, this book provides a brief clinical study of appendicitis and its common varieties. Bowen deals with topics such as the etiology and treatment of appendicitis as well as potential complications following the operation, such...