History of medicine

Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that "e;like cures like,"e; counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms.

Apricot wine and stewed calf's head, melancholy medicine and "e;ointment of roses.

Apricot wine and stewed calf's head, melancholy medicine and "e;ointment of roses.

From the Napoleonic Wars to the invention of the railway to the shell shock of World War I, writers tried to give voice to the suffering that war and industrial technology had wrought all around them.

From the Napoleonic Wars to the invention of the railway to the shell shock of World War I, writers tried to give voice to the suffering that war and industrial technology had wrought all around them.

The book reveals a new look at medicine and Health Care System as a factor that significantly influences the history of mankind as a species.

This book is the first collection of scholarly works fully dedicated to exploring disability and impairment in early Chinese history.

This volume will look at the history of trepanation, the identification of skulls, the tools used to make the cranial openings, and theories as to why trepanation might have been performed many thousands of years ago.

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This volume describes important medical discoveries, from the introduction of the first antibiotic to the present, where serendipity, intuition, coincidence, or laboratory accident played an important role in bringing a discovery to light.

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Santiago Ramón y Cajal, premio Nobel de Medicina y el mayor genio científico español de todos los tiempos, es retratado por fin en toda su complejidad en esta emocionante biografía.

We Are Having This Conversation Now offers a history, present, and future of AIDS through thirteen short conversations between Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr, scholars deeply embedded in HIV responses.

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Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various health movements emerged in the transition to the modern age of scientific medicine.

As Americans and citizens of other industrializing countries began to enjoy lives of increasing affluence and ease during the first half of the 20th century, a rising tide of heart attacks and strokes displaced infectious diseases as the leading cause of death, killing millions in the United States and throughout the world.

The captivating individual stories of 17 U.

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This biography of James Edmund Reeves, whose legislative accomplishments cemented American physicians' control of the medical marketplace, illuminates landmarks of American health care: the troubled introduction of clinical epidemiology and development of botanic medicine and homeopathy, the Civil War's stimulation of sanitary science and hospital medicine, the rise of government involvement, the revolution in laboratory medicine, and the explosive growth of phony cures.

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Both before and during World War II, the Nazis restricted the rights of Jewish and communist doctors.

From the beginning of mankind, health and health issues have played a major role in life, but the issues and care have evolved enormously from the time when the first settlers set foot in America to the present.

Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history.

Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business.

At the beginning of the Second World War, medical experts predicted epidemics of physical and mental illness on the home front.

In this book, Rebekah Lee offers a critical introduction to the diverse history of health, healing and illness in sub-Saharan Africa from the 1800s to the present day.

In this book, Rebekah Lee offers a critical introduction to the diverse history of health, healing and illness in sub-Saharan Africa from the 1800s to the present day.

Cook explores the development of clinical tropical medicine from the 19th century onwards by following the pioneering doctors in this discipline, their personalities, achievements and scientific breakthroughs.

Busvine's introductory account of the evolutionary histories of insects and mites leads on to a fascinating study of human reactions to ectoparasites.

Ten Follies: A Journey Around the World in Ten Forms of Madness focuses on a critical question in the history of psychiatry: to what extent does psychopathology describe phenomena that exist before or beyond their description?

Forensic science has become a mainstay of popular culture on television, in movies, books, and podcasts.

'This is history with a surgeon's touch: deft, incisive and sometimes excruciatingly bloody' The Sunday Times'Utterly eccentric and riveting' Mail on Sunday 'Eye-opening and, frequently, eye-watering .

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It has been called the plague of the 21st century for its dramatic increase in numbers and the challenge it poses to health care.

This book explores the vital role language plays in shaping how we understand and discuss medicines, making for a more detailed study of pharmaceutical and pharmacological language to more clearly understand the intersection of language, health, and culture.

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Read the devastating story of the Spanish flu - the twentieth century's greatest killer and discover what it can teach us about the current Covid-19 pandemic.

Although the study of traditional Chinese medicine has attracted unprecedented attention in recent years, Western knowledge of it has been limited because, until now, not a single Chinese classical medical text has been available in a serious philological translation.

The biography of an American pioneer of medical surgery, Physick was responsible for huge advances during his lifetime, designing several new instruments and one of the first people to commonly use autopsy as a regular means of observation.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

This vintage book contains a history of the Society of Apothecaries of the City of London, first published in 1885.

'Wonderful, thoughtful, practical' - Cariad Lloyd, Griefcast'Encouraging and inspiring' - Dr Kathryn Mannix, author of Amazon bestseller With the End in MindWe all know how this ends is a new approach to death and dying, showing how exploring our mortality really can change our lives.

'Wonderful, thoughtful, practical' - Cariad Lloyd, Griefcast'Encouraging and inspiring' - Dr Kathryn Mannix, author of Amazon bestseller With the End in MindWe all know how this ends is a new approach to death and dying, showing how exploring our mortality really can change our lives.

A thrilling and gruesome look at the science that influenced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Tuberculosis is an ancient disease, but it's not a disease of history.

All of us have lurking in our DNA a most remarkable gene, which has a crucial job – it protects us from cancer.

How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs?

How did 17th-century families in England perceive their health care needs?