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First published in 1922 as an expanded second edition of a 1914 original and as part of the Cambridge Public Health Series, this book examines the chemistry of water, sewage, food and other substances. Purvis and Hodgson assess methods of analysis for...

Religion and Medicine from the Pre-Axial Age to Modernity: An Introductory Reader probes the rich and varied intersections between religious beliefs and medical practices that have existed over time, grounding its approach in the influential concept of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626549210Author Sander L GilmanFormat HardbackPage Count 386Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

From 1720 to 1722, the French region of Provence and surrounding areas experienced one of the last major epidemics of plague to strike Western Europe. The Plague of Provence was a major disaster that left in its wake as many as 126,000 deaths, as well as...

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, but he was particularly concerned about public health issues arising from...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782808008846Author 50minutesFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint 50minutes.comPublisher 50minutes.comWeight(grams) 86g

In 1915, an outbreak of meningitis affected the Eastern Command in the British Army. Foster and Gaskell, both Captains in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the Territorial Army, were on hand to witness the effect of the disease, and the following year they...

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For those engaged in military conflict at the end of the nineteenth century, infection and disease were still as formidable enemies as the guns of an opposing army. Yet advances in sanitary science and understanding continued to help officers keep their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425511371Author Florence NightingaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan LibraryPublisher Michigan...

Robert Robertson (1742-1829) was a Scottish doctor and surgeon. After completing his medical apprenticeship, Robertson joined the Royal Navy as a surgeon's mate in 1760. In 1768 he was appointed surgeon to the sloop Diligence, and served as surgeon on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683403258Author David S. DaltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams) 152g

Originally published in 1932, this book presents the content of Sir Walter Langdon-Brown's inaugural lecture upon taking up the position of Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge University. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the...

Originally published in 1924, this book presents the history of the Hippocratic oath from its earliest formulations through its interpretation and representation by later religious and medical traditions. Jones traces the changing terminology found in...

John Conolly (1794-1866) was a physician and alienist (psychiatrist) who worked with the mentally ill at the Hanwell County Asylum in Middlesex, where he introduced the principle of non-restraint. This action was at first controversial and met with...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781426905551Author Alan R. RushtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 889gDimensions(mm)...

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 1935, this volume contains the text of the fifth Horsley Memorial Lecture, delivered by Sir Walter Langdon-Brown. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in medical history, particularly the history of the discovery...

Originally published in 1933, this book presents a historical study of ophthalmology in Britain from its earliest phases during the Roman period up until the end of the eighteenth century. Numerous illustrative figures, detailed textual notes and an...

Recycling the disabled: Army, medicine, and modernity in WWI Germany examines the 'medical organisation' of Imperial Germany for total war. Faced with mounting casualties and a growing labour shortage, German military, industrial, and governmental...

Unnatural History explores the change over the last two centuries from isolated, private fears to an immense individual and collective risk of breast cancer. The book begins with the experiences of a Quaker woman diagnosed with breast cancer in 1812 and...

This book explores the improbable rise of medical hypnotism in Victorian Britain and its subsequent assimilation and neglect. It follows the careers of the ‘New Hypnotists’: Charles Lloyd Tuckey, John Milne Bramwell, George Kingsbury and Robert Felkin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781545667286Author William H Adams M DFormat PaperbackPage Count 626Imprint Liberty Hill PublishingPublisher Liberty Hill PublishingWeight(grams) 1070g

This book is available as open access through the Knowledge Unlatched programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. We need to talk about Hippocrates. Current scholarship attributes none of the works of the 'Hippocratic corpus' to him, and...

This Open Access book provides a new understanding of the meanings and motivations behind the wearing of beards, moustaches and whiskers, and their associated practices and practitioners. Concerning Beards offers an important new long-term perspective on...

It is rarely appreciated how much of the history of Eurasian medicine in the premodern period hinges on cross-cultural interactions and knowledge transmissions. Using manuscripts found in key Eurasian nodes of the medieval world - Dunhuang, Kucha, the...

Having trained in Edinburgh as a surgeon and served aboard Royal Navy vessels, Sir James Clark (1788-1870) developed a particular interest in the spread of the tuberculosis pandemic in Europe. A licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians from 1826,...

When this book was first published in 1832, England was caught in a cholera pandemic that had already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives across Europe. It was commonly held that 'bad air' spread the disease, but theories and remedies varied: one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783741175Author Jack BottingFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 345gDimensions(mm)...

The surgeon and anatomist John Hunter (1728-93) left a famous legacy in the Hunterian Museum of medical specimens now in the Royal College of Surgeons, and in this collection of his writings, edited by James Palmer, with a biography by Drewry Ottley,...

This joint reissue comprises two works on military medicine, providing instruction on the treatment of ailments common to soldiers, and methods for preventing their occurrence. The title work, written by Charles Alexander Gordon (1821-99) and published...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789768231468Author Harold MunningsFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Media Enterprises LtdPublisher Media Enterprises LtdWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357952552Author W Sedgwick SaundersPage Count 46Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783740780593Author Rene KesslerFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint TwentysixPublisher TwentysixWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361475436Author Annie Payson CallPage Count 98Imprint Alpha EditionsPublisher Alpha Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789359396446Author Aegineta PaulusFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 526g

The battles that women had to fight to enter the medical profession have been well-documented by historians. A Painful Inch to Gain takes a more personal approach, focusing on the stories of individual women medical students. Drawing as far as possible...

First published by the Cambridge University Press in 1911, this volume represents the result of three years of research into the subject of diarrhoea, which was one of the chief causes of child mortality in Great Britain at the turn of the century. It...