A Short History of Medicine, Second Edition Wendy Lee Oldfield Each disease is presented on

Each disease is presented on a two-page spread in boxes with consistent headings: introduction

This book shows how the original

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A Short History of Medicine, Second Edition Wendy Lee Oldfield Each disease is presented onAuthor: Charles Singer and E. Ashworth Underwood Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1962 Condition: Hardcover with dust jacket, wrapped, interior clean Includes information and illustrations on medicine as practised by the ancient Egyptians and Syrians, certain aspects of medieval medicine, the rise of physiology, tropical medicine, insanity, metabolism, vitamins, dentistry, drugs, the statistical and arithmetical aspects of medicine, etc.