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Strange medicine: a shocking history of real medical practices through the ages

By Nathan , Belofsky

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Year
2013
ISBN
9781101624586, 9780399159954, 0399159959
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
685 kB (701293 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
viii, 213 pages ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
History of Medicine;MedicineTraditional -- historyTraditional--history;Traditional medicine--History

Description

Growing pains -- Medicine's dark ages -- The "Renaissance" -- The age of heroic medicine.;Belofsky casts a gimlet eye on the practice of medicine through the ages and highlights the most dubious ideas, bizarre treatments, and biggest blunders. Growing pains -- Medicine's dark ages -- The "Renaissance" -- The age of heroic medicine.

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