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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
In this wide-ranging exploration of American medical culture, John Harley Warner offers the first in-depth study of a powerful intellectual and social influence: the radical empiricism of the Paris Clinical School. After the French Revolution, Paris emerged as the most vibrant center of Western medicine, bringing fundamental changes in understanding disease and attitudes toward the human body as an object of scientific knowledge. Between the 1810s and the 1860s, hundreds of Americans studied in Parisian hospitals and dissection rooms, and then applied their new knowledge to advance their careers at home and reform American medicine. By reconstructing their experiences and interpretations, by...
Typhoid Is Widely Prevalent All Over The World But More So In Developing Countries. During The Last Few Decades Profile Of The Disease Has Been Changing And Is Manifesting With A Varied Spectrum Of Life-Threatening Complications And Even A High Degree Of Morbidity And Mortality.Typhoid Has Been In Existence Since Times Of Yore And Despite Rapid Strides In Our Knowledge There Still Exist Gaps. This Book Provides An Insight Into The Various Aspects Of The Disease Ranging From Clinical Profile, Complications And Management.It Is Hoped That The Book Shall Bridge This Gap And Prove Useful For All Practitioners Of Medicine, I.E. The Consultants, General Practitioners, Undergraduate And Postgraduate Students.
In the 1880s, bacteriology started to become an identifiable discipline of science as it separated from established fields of medicine such as pathology, histology and microscopy. It was during this period that Philadelphia medical students traveled to Europe to learn more about this new specialty and brought this knowledge back to the city. This first generation of bacteriologists established crude laboratories, and encouraged lectures in bacteriology to be included in the medical school curriculum. The first part of this book focuses on the people and institutions that played a significant role in establishing bacteriology in Philadelphia. A second generation of bacteriologists contributed...
Destined to become a classic epidemiological study, EXPECTA- TIONS OF LIFE surveys world mortality, describing and ex- plaining the declines of mortality which have become especi- ally evident in this century.