White Coat Tales: Medicine's Heroes, Heritage, and MisadventuresSpringer Science & Business Media, 28 kwi 2010 - 272 Ifyou wantto understandtoday,you have to search yesterday. Pearl S. Buck (1892 1973) I begin this book with a premise: If there is a human endeavor that is richer in tradition, culture, and idiosyncrasies than medicine, I don't know what it is. What you are about to read presents some of these treasures tales of the epic scientific discoveries as well as some behind the scenes medical anecdotes. In the pages that follow, you will find a selection of medicine's scientific triumphs, clinical curiosities, insightful aphorisms, inventive m- monics, imaginative myths, and occasional blunders. In short, the book tells what physicians didn't learn in medical school, but probably should have. But the book is not intended solely for physicians. The tales that follow should be enlightening for all involved in medicine, including the diverse panorama of health professionals, and also anyone who has ever been a patient in a doctor's office or hospital. |
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... tion , dazzling insights , and fortuitous discoveries , such as when in 1920 , a medical student noted that patients given mercury injections to treat syphi- lis passed large quantities of urine , suggesting that mercurials might have ...
... tion , dazzling insights , and fortuitous discoveries , such as when in 1920 , a medical student noted that patients given mercury injections to treat syphi- lis passed large quantities of urine , suggesting that mercurials might have ...
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... tion , the Church became the custodian of Western scholarship . The warfare and general turmoil in continental Europe prompted historian Thomas Cahill to write a book entitled How the Irish Saved Civilization , describing how Christian ...
... tion , the Church became the custodian of Western scholarship . The warfare and general turmoil in continental Europe prompted historian Thomas Cahill to write a book entitled How the Irish Saved Civilization , describing how Christian ...
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... tion . This was quite different form Galenic theory , which held that there were two types of blood , arterial and venous , which never mingled , and that food was converted into blood by the liver and subsequently used as fuel by the ...
... tion . This was quite different form Galenic theory , which held that there were two types of blood , arterial and venous , which never mingled , and that food was converted into blood by the liver and subsequently used as fuel by the ...
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... tion to repeat that Hunter found surgery a mechanical art and left it an experimental science . " Moore calls him the " Father of Modern Surgery " ( 8 ) . Remember that , in Hunter's day , the barber - surgeon had not yet waned and ...
... tion to repeat that Hunter found surgery a mechanical art and left it an experimental science . " Moore calls him the " Father of Modern Surgery " ( 8 ) . Remember that , in Hunter's day , the barber - surgeon had not yet waned and ...
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... tion ( 9 ) . Edward Jenner was not the first to devise a means of preventing smallpox . For 1,000 years , the Chinese had practiced a method of inoculation ; small- pox scales were dried and ground to a powder , which was then inhaled ...
... tion ( 9 ) . Edward Jenner was not the first to devise a means of preventing smallpox . For 1,000 years , the Chinese had practiced a method of inoculation ; small- pox scales were dried and ground to a powder , which was then inhaled ...
Spis treści
Part Two The Heritage and Culture of Medicine | 64 |
Part Three Clinical Notes and Medical Misadventures | 152 |
Bibliography | 247 |
Index | 251 |
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