Men of Steel : Surgery in the Napoleonic Wars

Michael Crumplin
Hardcover - $77.95

Exhaustively researched, this is the first dedicated account of surgery during the pre-anaestetic and pre-antiseptic days of the Napoleonic War. The author, a retired surgeon, captures the experience of surgery under often trying and appalling condit ...

The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine

Andrew Cunningham
Paperback - $96.95

Laboratory medicine developed in the nineteenth century, principally in Germany, France, Britain, and the United States of America. While a number of scholars have studied various aspects of laboratory medicine in the nineteenth century, no attempts ...

The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century

Andrew Cunningham
Paperback - $117.95

A series of essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and the increased use of reason.

The Medical Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century

Andrew Cunningham
Hardcover - $275.95

A series of new essays on the development of medicine in the century of the Enlightenment, illustrating the decline in the role of religion in medical thinking, and the increased use of Reason.

Captain of Death : The Story of Tuberculosis

Thomas M. Daniel
Paperback - $50.95

Tuberculosis was once the feared "White Plague". Today, with sanatoria closed and a battery of drugs available to fight it, TB may seem to be on the way out. The grim facts tell a different story.

Tuberculosis kills over 3,000,000 people in the wor ...

Polio

Thomas M. Daniel
Paperback - $38.95

Polio infantile paralysis was until recently a greatly feared disease, but is now preventable by a vaccine, which has largely eradicated it from the Western hemisphere; a global eradication campaign is underway. This book tells of the story of polio ...

A Surgical Temptation : The Demonization of the Foreskin and the Rise of Circumcision in Britain

Robert Darby
Hardcover - $70.95

In the eighteenth century, the Western world viewed circumcision as an embarrassing disfigurement peculiar to Jews. A century later, British doctors urged parents to circumcise their sons as a routine precaution against every imaginable sexual dysfun ...

Ancient Greece Health and Disease

Dargie
Library Binding - $48.95

- Timeline
- Detailed Artwork
- Table of Contents
- Index
- Safe websites at www.facthound.com
- National Standards for History for World History: Era 3 Classical traditions, Major religions, and giant empires. 1000 BCE-300 CE

The Devil's Flu : The World's Deadliest Influenza Epidemic and the Scientific Hunt for the Virus That Caused It

Pete Davies
Paperback - $27.95

The author of "Inside the Hurricane" gives a gripping account of the 1918 flu pandemic and the modern-day hunt for this elusive and deadly virus.

Healing Ways : Navajo Health Care in the Twentieth Century

Wade Davies
Hardcover - $86.95

Chronicles the advent of so-called "western" or "scientific" medicine in the modern era, and how Navajos adapted, but did not compromise their traditional healings ways.