Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Ward, Brian

Story of Medicine Brian Ward - New York Lorenz Books c2000 - 64 p. - Exploring History .

Medicine around the world and across the ages.

Healthy mind and body -- Earliest medicine -- Shamans and the supernatural -- Ayurvedic medicine -- Chinese medicine -- Hippocrates and the greeks -- Roman medicine -- Arab world -- Galen's legacy -- Renaissance discoveries -- Plague and pestilence -- Making diagnosis -- Rise of surgery -- Germ-free and pain-free -- Quacks and charlatans -- Public health -- Microbe hunters -- Immunization -- Germ killers -- Woman pioneers -- Rebuilding the body -- Healing the mind -- Plants and pills -- Alternative therapies -- Holistic medicine -- Modern technology -- Imaging the body -- Looking to the future.

10 - 13 years

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Medicine--history--juvenile

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