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Doctors on Horseback: Pioneers of American Medicine

By James Thomas Flexner

Book information

Publisher
Fordham Univ Press
Year
1993
ISBN
082321379X, 9780823213795
LCC
R153 .F5 1992
Google Books ID
3EvecNViFX0C
Open Library ID
OL1717102M
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
976 kB (999832 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

The man in the street would not, perhaps, recognize all the names of the brilliant scientists whose careers and personalities animate this book, but doctors know them. Morgan, who founded the first medical school in American and, fighting beside Washington, was ruined b the petty politics of the Revolution; McDowell, who, although on the fringe of the wilderness, dared the operation that prepared the way for all abdominal surgery; Rush, the equivocal personality who, for better or worse, dominated American medicine for more than fifty years; Beaumont, who, saving a life, won a living laboratory; Drake, who brought modern medicine to the New West; Long and Morton, who banished pain from surgery and earned it for themselves - these men are honored in their profession today.

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