Bibliograph

A story of medicine in 50 discoveries, Marguerite Vigliani, MD and Gale Eaton ; presented by Phillip Hoose

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Label

A story of medicine in 50 discoveries, Marguerite Vigliani, MD and Gale Eaton ; presented by Phillip Hoose

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-297) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

A story of medicine in 50 discoveries

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1041897476

Responsibility statement

Marguerite Vigliani, MD and Gale Eaton ; presented by Phillip Hoose

Series statement

Story in 50

Summary

Presents the circumstances surrounding fifty medicinal discoveries in history, from Mesopotamian pharmaceuticals to modern prostheticsDiscusses the circumstances surrounding fifty medicinal discoveries in history, from Mesopotamian pharmaceuticals to modern prosthetics

Table Of Contents

What's a discovery? -- The iceman: forensic analysis of a neolithic killing -- A parade of ants: magic and folk healing -- Massage: rubbing out demons and kinks -- Secrets of the dead: ancient Egyptian mummifiers and surgeons -- 170 BC: sleep therapy at the Temples of Asklepios -- AD 200: Galen discovers nerves and humors -- 900: al-Razi and evidence-based medicine in the Middle Ages -- 1508: Da Vinci's heart -- 1600: the Chamberlen family secret -- 1670: looking through Van Leeuwenhoek's tiny microscopes -- 1721: fighting smallpox and public opinion in colonial Boston -- 1747: limeys and the conquest of scurvy -- 1776: a folk remedy for congestive heart failure -- 1799: heroic bloodletting, leech mania, and discovering what doesn't work -- 1816: Rene Laennec invents the stethoscope -- 1828: cutting the stone -- 1846: laughing gas -- 1847: wash your hands -- 1848: monster soup -- 1854: cholera and epidemiology -- 1867: Gregor Mendel and inherited traits -- 1870: discovering ancient skull surgeries -- 1881: spontaneous generation and the germ theory of disease -- 1882: tuberculosis emerges from the miasma -- 1894: a barrel of snakes and an antitoxin -- 1896: the discovery of x-rays -- 18989: a small-game hunter fights bubonic plague -- 1898: viruses borrow life support from tobacco leaves and humans -- 1900: Marie Curie's lab glows in the dark -- 1901: making blood transfusions safe -- 1905: hormones and endocrinology -- 1907: Typhoid Mary becomes the world's most notorious cook -- 1909: Ehrlich's magic bullet and the beginnings of chemotherapy -- 1922: controlling diabetes -- 1929: Fleming's dirty dishes give us penicillin -- 1930: psychosurgery -- 1939-1955: rat poison for a U.S. president -- 1944: discovering DNA -- 1945: a miracle drug in the sewage -- 1945: saving lives with sausage casings, washing machines, and juice cans -- 1951: Frankenstein and the heart machines -- 1967: Baruch Blumberg discovers a cancer-causing virus -- 1967: the first heart transplant -- 1972: a magic bullet from Chinese medicines -- 1978: the first test tube baby -- 1983: preventing cancers -- 1998:MMR vaccine, autism, discovery, and fraud -- 2011: bionic parts -- 2013: poop therapy for the human microbiome -- 2016: researching the Zika Virus

Target audience

adolescent

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