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Author DeJauregui, Ruth, author

Title 100 medical milestones that shaped world history / Ruth DeJauregui.

Publication Info. San Mateo, CA : Bluewood Books, [1998]
copyright 1998

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  610.9 DEJ    Check Shelf
Description 112 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Series 100 series
Note Includes index.
Contents [1] Herbs as medicine -- Eye surgery -- The Hippocratic oath -- Acupuncture -- Dissection -- Human anatomy -- Dressing wounds and stitches -- The circulatory system -- The microscope -- Parasites -- The pulse watch -- Scurvy -- The science of pathology -- Respiration -- Smallpox vaccinations -- The nervous system -- The stethoscope -- Blood transfusions -- Public health -- General anesthetic -- The science of epidemiology -- Preventing infection -- The ophthalmoscope -- The hypodermic syringe -- Cholera -- Digestion.
[2] The theory of germs -- The division of cells -- Measuring blood pressure -- The dental drill -- Antiseptics -- Genetics -- The medical thermometer -- Cancer -- Tissue grafting -- Leprosy -- Brain surgery -- Vaccinations -- Tuberculosis -- White blood cells -- The bubonic plague -- Psychoanalysis -- X-rays -- Immunization -- Malaria -- Typhoid -- Aspirin -- Yellow fever -- Joining blood vessels -- The identification of blood types -- Parasitic diseases -- Hormones -- Chromosomes.
[3] The electrical pulses of the heart -- Radiation therapy -- Corneal transplants -- Vitamins -- Typhus -- Histamines -- Chemotherapy -- The role of the pituitary gland -- Insulin -- Brain waves -- Penicillin -- The iron lung -- The electron microscope -- Sulfa drugs -- Plastic surgery -- Kidney dialysis -- Antibiotics -- Open heart surgery -- Cortisone -- Tranquilizers -- Kidney transplants -- DNA -- The heart-lung machine --The polio vaccine -- The birth control pill -- Ultrasound -- The artificial pacemaker.
[4] Preventive medicine -- Cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- Oral vaccinations -- Laser surgery -- Beta blockers -- The endoscope -- Artificial blood -- Cat scans -- Heart transplants -- Microsurgery -- Bone marrow transplants -- The artificial heart -- Magnetic resonance imaging -- In vitro fertilization -- Artificial skin -- HIV/AIDS -- Gene therapy -- Fetal surgery -- Cloning -- Growing new organs.
Subject Medicine -- Miscellanea.
Added Title One hundred medical milestones that shaped world history
ISBN 091251731X (pbk.) 7.95
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