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  • Eye Injuries in War

    Edited by Sibylle Scholtz, Lee MacMorris, Oksana Vitovska ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book examines the causes, types, challenges, historical developments, and advancements in the treatment of war-related eye injuries. Eye injuries in war are among the most debilitating and complex wounds sustained by combatants and civilians in conflict zones. These injuries, often caused by explosions, shrapnel, projectile wounds, and chemical agents, can result in permanent vision loss, ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Curiosities in Medicine

    Alphabetically

    by Sibylle Scholtz, Myriam Becker, Lee MacMorris, Achim Langenbucher ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Step into the fascinating world of medical history with the second edition of Curiosities in Medicine: Alphabetically, now featuring 20 new chapters, for a total of 100 captivating stories! This expanded collection takes you on a journey through the strange, surprising, and sometimes shocking tales that have shaped medicine as we know it.Explore the peculiar, the profound, and the puzzling with ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Curiosities in Medicine

    Alphabetically

    by Sibylle Scholtz, Myriam Becker, Lee MacMorris, Achim Langenbucher ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This anthology is devoted to the curious side of Medical History. Carl Sagan said: ”You have to know the past to understand the present.” This collection of 80 short stories, written by experts in the field, inspires curiosity and provides a detailed look at the History of Medicine.It investigates many topics, including ancient Egyptian knowledge, the fundamental importance of toothache and how it ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Happy Accidents

    Serendipity in Major Medical Breakthroughs in the Twentieth Century

    by Morton A. Meyers ...
    Happy Accidents is a fascinating, entertaining, and highly accessible look at the surprising role serendipity has played in some of the most important medical discoveries in the twentieth century. What do penicillin, chemotherapy drugs, X-rays, Valium, the Pap smear, and Viagra have in common? They were each discovered accidentally, stumbled upon in the search for something else. In the 1990s, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Medicine

    The Definitive Illustrated History

    by DK ...
    Series series DK Definitive Visual Histories
    From ancient herbal remedies to modern drugs, the field of medicine has evolved dramatically over many centuries.Medicine takes you through the ages of human history and uncovers the greatest medical breakthroughs, with incredible coverage of disease, drugs, treatment, and cures. Turn the richly illustrated pages replete with compelling stories to learn all about the gory pitfalls and miraculous ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Into the Light

    Tomorrow's Medicine Today

    by William Campbell Douglass II MD ...
    If you knew of a procedure that could save thousands, maybe millions, of people dying from AIDS, cancer, and other dreaded killers...Would you cover it up? The procedure called "photoluminescence"stimulates the body's own immune responses. A proven therapy that uses the healing power of light to perform almost miraculous cures. Dr. Douglass explains how light therapy works to treat allergies, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of Radiology

    by Adrian M. K. Thomas, Arpan K. Banerjee ...
    Series series Oxford Medical Histories
    In 1890, Professor Arthur Willis Goodspeed, a professor of physics at Pennsylvania USA was working with an English born photographer, William N Jennings, when they accidentally produced a Röntgen Ray picture. Unfortunately, the significance of their findings were overlooked, and the formal discovery of X-rays was credited to Wilhelm Roentgen in 1895. The discovery has since transformed the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Blood

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Chris Cooper ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Blood is vital to most animals. In mammals it transports oxygen and food, carries away waste, and contains the white cells that attack invading microbes. Playing a central role in life, it has had profound cultural and historical significance and plays an important role in religious ritual. Blood was one of the four humours in early Western medicine and is still probably the major diagnostic tool ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Sensitive Crystallization Processes

    A Demonstration of Formative Forces in the Blood

    by Ehrenfried E. Pfeiffer ...
    Translated by Henry B. Monges ...
    Dr. Ehrenfreied Pfeiffer writes:"Research carried on since 1925 has shown that the formation and arrangement of crystals during the process of crystallization can, under certain conditions, be greatly influenced by the admixture of various substances.... Hence, from these alterations (in form) apriori conclusions can be drawn about the qualities and characteristics of the admixture itself."This is ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Pioneers Of Microbiology And The Nobel Prize

    by Ulf Lagerkvist ...
    We are swamped with information and each day seems to bring new discoveries that must be considered. Never before in the history of science have so many scientists been as active as today. It has become a major problem for the expert just to keep up with the literature in his or her own field of research. Why, then, should experts and their poor students worry about the pioneers of microbiology, ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • A History of the Brain

    From Stone Age surgery to modern neuroscience

    by Andrew P. Wickens ...
    A History of the Brain tells the full story of neuroscience, from antiquity to the present day. It describes how we have come to understand the biological nature of the brain, beginning in prehistoric times, and progressing to the twentieth century with the development of Modern Neuroscience.This is the first time a history of the brain has been written in a narrative way, emphasizing how our ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Pioneers In Microbiology: The Human Side Of Science

    by King-thom Chung, Jong-kang Liu ...
    Pasteurization, penicillin, Koch's postulates, and gene coding. These discoveries and inventions are vital yet commonplace in modern life, but were radical when first introduced to the public and academia. In this book, the life and times of leading pioneers in microbiology are discussed in vivid detail, focusing on the background of each discovery and the process in which they were developed — ... Read more

    $18.99 USD