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From Hippocrates to gene therapy, bloodletting to DNA.Paul Strathern follow s the development of medicine through the lives of its greatest practitioners, w hose discoveries (and errors) shaped the course of medical history
Includes geniuses, such as Paracelsus, the father of medical chemistry, and Edward Jenner, w hose vaccination banished smallpox, scientific endeavour, such as the discovery of X-rays, and mistakes bothfortunate and fatal. With grave robbing, plague and germ theory, quackery, nursing, syphilis, micro-organisms and penicillin along the w ay, this is the ultimate story of human --and humane -- achievement.
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