A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye
Author: Mackenzie
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 442
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Author: Mackenzie
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Published: 1840
Total Pages: 442
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Markham J. Geller
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1501506552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is to date no comprehensive treatment of eye disease texts from ancient Mesopotamia, and no English translation of this material is available. This volume is the first complete edition and commentary on Mesopotamian medicine from Nineveh dealing with diseases of the eye. This ancient work, languishing in British Museum archives since the 19th century, is preserved on several large cuneiform manuscripts from the royal library of Ashurbanipal, from the 7th century BC. The longest surviving ancient work on diseased eyes, the text predates by several centuries corresponding Hippocratic treatises. The Nineveh series represents a systematic array of eye symptoms and therapies, also showing commonalities with Egyptian and Greco-Roman medicine. Since scholars of Near Eastern civilizations and ancient and general historians of medicine will need to be familiar with this material, the volume makes this aspect of Babylonian medicine fully accessible to both specialists and non-specialists, with all texts being fully translated into English.
Author: John Elmer Weeks
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 1000
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 762
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Published: 1833
Total Pages: 766
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 844
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jacalyn Duffin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1400864674
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRené Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826) is best known for his invention of the stethoscope, one of medicine's most powerful symbols. Histories, novels, and films have cloaked his life in hagiography and legend. Jacalyn Duffin's fascinating new biography relies on a vastly expanded foundation of primary source material, including thousands of pages of handwritten patient records, lecture notes, unpublished essays, and letters. She situates Laennec, the scientist and teacher, within the broader social and intellectual currents of post-Revolutionary France. Her work uncovers a complex character who participated actively in the dramatic changes of his time. Laennec's famous Treatise on Mediate Auscultation was his only published book, but two lesser known works were left in manuscript: an early treatise on pathological anatomy and a later set of lectures on disease. The three parts of Duffin's biography correspond to these books. First, she examines Laennec's student research on the emerging science of pathological anatomy, the background for his major achievement. Second, she uses his clinical records to trace the discovery and development of "mediate auscultation" (listening through an instrument, or mediator, to sounds within the human body). The stethoscope allowed clinicians to "see" the organic alterations inside their living patients' bodies. Finally, she explores the impact of auscultation on diagnostic practice and on concepts of disease. Analyzed here for the first time in their entirety, Laennec's Collége de France lectures reveal his criticism of over-enthusiastic extrapolations of his own method at the expense of the patient's story. Originally published in 1998. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: William Rowley
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Published: 1790
Total Pages: 446
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Amy L. Fairchild
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2007-11-07
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0520253256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis history of public health service in the United States spans more than a century of conflict and controversy with the authors situating the tension inherent in public health surveilance in a broad social and political context.
Author: Richard Middlemore
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Published: 1835
Total Pages: 876
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