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Davies, Gill.

The illustrated timeline of medicine / Gill Davies.

New York : Rosen Pub., 2012.

226 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.

Chronicles medical history, from the primitive practices of antiquity to the discoveries of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the technological innovations of the modern era, with a selection of entries on famous people, institutions, and diseases.

History timelines

History timelines.

Medicine -- History.

Medical innovations -- History.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-217) and index.

Disease and pestilence -- Pharmacy: an ancient art -- Ancient healers -- Alternative and complementary medicine -- Middle ages -- The renaissance -- Britain 1600s -- Hospitals -- Some men of note -- Nineteenth-Century Pioneers -- Exploring the mind -- Genetics -- Modern surgical techniques -- Modern diagnostic techniques -- International red cross -- Women: their role as doctors -- Drugs in sport -- High-altitude medicine aviation medicine -- Paramedical service -- Lifestyle disease -- Insurance -- Nobel prize winners -- Countries: brief selection of events.

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