The history of medical treatment from the barbarous era of the eighteenth century through the revolutionary and often bizarre changes of the nineteenth century: the introduction of anesthesia and antiseptics, hospital reform and explorations of "alternative" medicine.
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Review:
"dutiful survey of the development... of the foundation upon which much of modern medicine is based..." — Washington Post
"Pleasant reading..." — Booklist
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- PublisherConstable
- Publication date1981
- ISBN 10 0094623600
- ISBN 13 9780094623606
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages234
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