Breakthrough! : how the 10 greatest discoveries in medicine saved millions and changed our view of the world
In this book, the author tells the hidden stories history's most amazing medical discoveries. This isn't dry history: these are life and death mysteries uncovered, tales of passionate, often mocked individuals who stood their ground and were proven right; they include a colorful cast of ch...
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Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:
FT Press Science,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The world's first physician: Hippocrates and the discovery of medicine
- 2. How cholera saved civilization: the discovery of sanitation
- 3. Invisible invaders: the discovery of germs and how they cause disease
- 4. For the relief of unbearable pain: the discovery of anesthesia
- 5. I'm looking through you: the discovery of X-rays
- 6. The scratch that saved a million lives: the discovery of vaccines
- 7. From ancient molds to modern miracles: the discovery of antibiotics
- 8. Breaking God's code: the discovery of heredity, genetics, and DNA
- 9. Medicines for the mind : the discovery of drugs for madness, sadness, and fear
- 10. A return to tradition: the rediscovery of alternative medicine