Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine: The Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine into the Modern Age

by Fenster, Julie M

First Edition

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Book Description

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. With colorful narrative detail this book, the companion volume to The History Channel series of the same name, brings to dramatic life the extraordinary stories behind 20 groundbreaking achievements in the field of medical science. It is a field populated by the bold, eccentric, and inventive likes of Werner Forssmann, a doctor who had so much confidence in his theory of catheters being inserted into human hearts for diagnostic puposes that he inserted one into his own; Wilhelm Roentgen, who in his basement developed the X-ray machine with a single cathode ray and some cardboard; and Jean-Baptiste Denis who performed the first recorded blood transfusion with lamb's blood, and found himself later charged with murder on manufactured evidence (the patient had been poisoned not by bad blood, but by his discontented wife). From Typhoid Mary to Dolly and everything in between, here are the healers and dreamers who marched resolutely ahead of their time - and altered the face of medicine for all time. 304 pages with index and endnotes. Remainder mark on the bottom. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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