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The medical book: from witch doctors to robot surgeons : 250 milestones in the history of medicine
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Sterling Pub
Publication Date
c2012
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English
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Danvers - Adult Nonfiction (3rd Floor)
R 131 P523 2012
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10,000 B.C. : witch doctor
6500 B.C. : trapanation
4000 B.C. : urinalysis
3000 B.C. : sutures
2800 B.C. : glass eye
2400 B.C. : circumcision
2000 B.C. : ayurvedic medicine
1600 B.C. : Edwin Smith surgical papyrus
1500 B.C. : bloodletting
1000 B.C. : Greville Chester great toe
600 B.C : sewage systems
400 B.C. : Hippocratic oath
300 B.C. : Huangdi Neijing
100 B.C. : mithridatium and theriac
70 : abortion
70 Dioscorides's De Materia Medica
190 : Galenic writings
900 : Al-Razi's Comprehensive Book
1025 : Avicenna's Canon of Medicine
1161 : persecution of Jewish physicians
1210 : Barber pole
1242 : Al-Nafis's pulmonary circulation
1284 : eyeglasses
1346 : biological weapons
1510 : Leonardo's anatomical drawings
1522 : burning of Dr. Wertt
1527 : Paracelsus burns medical books
1543 : De Humani Corporis Fabrica
1545 : Pare\0301's "rational surgery"
1552 : Eustachi's rescued masterpieces
1563 : De Praestigiis Daemonum
1564 : condom
1580 : obstetrical forceps
1597 : tissue grafting
1601 : acupuncture Compendium
1618 : drawings of Pietro da Cortona
1628 : circulatory system
1642 : murder and Wirsung's duct
1652 : lymphatic system
1664 : cranial nerves classified
1665 : Micrographia
1678 : discovery of sperm
1679 : Brunner's glands
1683 : zoo within us
1687 : discovery of Sarcoptes Scabiei
1689 : separation of conjoined twins
1707 : pulse watch
1726 : Mary Toft's rabbits
1733 : Cheselden's Osteographia
1747 : Albinus's Tables of the human body
1753 : A Treatise on scurvy
1761 : autopsy
1761 : causes of cancer
1761 : Morgagni's "Cries of suffering organs"
1764 : cerebrospinal fluid
1772 : exploring the labyrinth
1774 : Hunter's Gravid Uterus
1784 : hospitals
1784 : Lavoisier's respiration
1785 : digitalis
1792 : ambulance
1793 : unchaining the lunatics
1796 : alternative medicine
1796 : phrenology
1798 : smallpox vaccination
1809 : cerebellum function
1811 : Bell-Magendie law
1812 : snow anesthesia
1813 : hysterectomy
1816 : stethoscope
1817 : ligation of the abdominal aorta
1825 : leech therapy
1829 : blood transfusion
1830 : medical specialization
1832 : intravenous saline solutions
1833 : observations of St. Martin's stomach
1842 : The sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain
1846 : Panum's "measles on the Faroe Island"
1846 : spirometry
1847 : American Medical Association
1847 : Semmelweis's hand washing
1848 : appendectomy
1850 : ophthalmoscope
1851 : plaster of Paris casts
1853 : hypodermic syringe
1854 : Broad Street pump handle
1854 : nursing
1855 : cell division
1857 : treatment of epilepsy
1858 : Gray's Anatomy
1861 : cerebral localization
1862 : germ theory of disease
1865 : antiseptics
1865 : Mendel's genetics
1866 : medical thermometer
1872 : thyroid surgery
1873 : cause of leprosy
1879 : modern brain surgery
1881 : sphygmomanometer
1882 : Cesarean section
1882 : Koch's tuberculosis lecture
1882 : phagocytosis theory
1883 : health insurance
1883 : salpingectomy
1884 : cocaine as local anesthetic
1890 : antitoxins
1890 : latex surgical gloves
1891 : neuron doctrine
1892 : discovery of viruses
1892 : osteopathy
1893 : discovery of adrenaline
1894 : cause of bubonic plague
1895 : D.D. Palmer and chiropractic
1895 : x-rays
1897 : cause of malaria
1899 : aspirin
1899 : defibrillator
1899 : hearing aids
1899 : psychoanalysis
1902 : Caduceus
1902 : chromosomal theory of inheritance
1902 : inborn errors of metabolism
1902 : cause of sleeping sickness
1902 : vascular suturing
1903 : electrocardiograph
1903 : radiation therapy
1904 : Halstedian surgery
1905 : corneal transplant
1905 : genes and sex determination
1906 : "analytic" vitamin discovery
1906 : allergies
1906 : Alzheimer's disease
1906 : Meat Inspection Act of 1906
1906 : patent medicines
1906 : cause of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
1907 : imprisonment of Typhoid Mary
1907 : searches for the soul
1910 : chlorination of water
1910 : Ehrlich's magic bullets
1910 : Flexner report and medical education
1914 : neurotransmitters
1916 : heparin
1920 : band-aid bandage
1921 : human growth hormone
1922 : banishing rickets
1922 : commercialization of insulin
1922 : truth serum
1924 : human electroencephalogram
1925 : modern midwifery
1926 : liver therapy
1927 : sterilization of Carrie Buck
1928 : "The rabbit died"
1928 : iron lung
1928 : pap smear test
1928 : penicillin
1929 : IUD
1929 : maggot therapy
1929 : medical self-experimentation
1933 : Jung's analytical psychology
1935 : Stanley's crystal invaders
1935 : sulfa drugs
1937 : antihistamines
1937 : cause of yellow fever
1938 : electroconvulsive therapy
1943 : "autistic disturbances"
1943 : dialysis
1944 : Blalock-Taussig shunt
1946 : cancer chemotherapy
1946 : transorbital lobotomy
1947 : informed consent
1947 : prosopagnosia
1948 : cortisone
1948 : nerve growth factor
1948 : randomized controlled trials
1949 : cause of sickle-cell anemia
1949 : mammography
1950 : antipsychotics
1951 : HeLa cells
1951 : tobacco smoking and cancer
1952 : amniocentesis
1952 : artificial heart valves
1953 : DNA structure
1953 : heart-lung machine
1954 : endoscope
1954 : kidney transplant
1955 : birth-control pill
1955 : placebo effect
1955 : polio vaccine
1956 : autoimmune diseases
1956 : bone marrow transplant
1956 : cardiopulmonary resuscitation
1957 : Levodopa for Parkinson's disease
1957 : fetal monitoring
1957 : medical ultrasound
1958 : artificial pacemaker for heart
1958 : hip replacement
1958 : pineal body
1959 : nanomedicine
1959 : radioimmunoassay
1959 : structure of antibodies
1960 : laser
1961 : self-surgery
1961 : thymus
1962 : cryonics
1962 : mitochondrial diseases
1962 : thalidomide disaster
1963 : cognitive behavioral therapy
1963 : liver transplant
1963 : lung transplant
1964 : angioplasty
1964 : beta-blockers
1964 : hand transplant
1966 : pancreas transplant
1967 : CAT scans
1967 : heart transplant
1967 : hospice
1970 : reverse transcriptase and AIDS
1972 : cyclosporine
1973 : positron emission tromography (PET)
1973 : statins
1975 : near-death experiences
1976 : oncogenes
1977 : cochlear implants
1977 : magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
1978 : first test-tube baby
1981 : fetal surgery
1981 : laparoscopic surgery
1982 : prions
1983 : epigenetics
1983 : polymerase chain reaction
1984 : peptic ulcers and bacteria
1984 : telomerase
1987 : small bowel transplant
1990 : gene therapy
1991 : do not resuscitate
1998 : RNA interference
2000 robotic surgery
2001 : telesurgery
2003 : human genome project
2005 : face transplant
2006 : growing new organs
2008 : human cloning.
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