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The history news
The history news: medicine
author, Phil Gates; consultant, Ghislaine Lawrence
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 1997.
ISBN: 0763603163   Edition: (hardcover : alk. paper) :$15.99

Summary:

Presents in newspaper format the stories of breakthroughs in medicine
in many different cultures and lands from the year 8000 B.C. to the
1990s.

Notes:

Includes index.

8000 B.C. -- Prehistoric medicine -- 2500 B.C.-A.D. 200 -- Chinese
medicine -- Indian surgery -- Hippocrates -- Ancient Rome --
1100-1400 -- The Middle Ages -- 1500-1700 -- Anatomy -- Ambrose Paré
-- William Harvey -- Which doctor? -- 1790-1890 -- Edward Jenner --
Anesthetics -- Florence Nightingale -- First woman doctor -- Germs --
Antiseptics -- 1890-Today -- X-rays -- Penicillin -- Transplants --
Modern medicine.

Gr.4-9.

Book Details:

Language: eng
Physical Description: 32 p. : col. ill. ; 34 cm.
Edition Info: (hardcover : alk. paper) :$15.99

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