The History Of Medicine In 100 Facts

Discovering major historical topics through the history behind the facts. The story of the history of medicine told in bite-sized chunks

Excerpt from The History of Medicine in the United States: A Collection of Facts and Documents Relating to the History of Medical Science in This Country, From the Earliest English Colonization to the Year 1800; With a Supplemental Chapter on the Discovery of Anaesthesia An effort has been made in the following pages to collect as many facts as possible regarding the rise of medical science in this country. But few data are accessible on the subject, but I trust that this book may have the effect of stimulating others to work in the same direction. Although there have been many books and essays published regarding the local medical history of different parts of the United States, I know of no other effort in the direction of a general history of early medicine. The work has occupied many years, and has been truly a labor of love to the author, who hopes it may possess a corresponding interest to others. It should be regarded rather as a series of essays and compilations, than in the light of a continuous historical work. I have received help in my work from too many sources to admit of complete acknowledgment in the present place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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One hundred and twenty-four selections survey the outstanding writings and discoveries in all aspects of medicine

A bestselling history of medicine, enriched with a new foreword, concluding essay, and bibliographic essay. Erwin H. Ackerknecht’s A Short History of Medicine is a concise narrative, long appreciated by students in the history of medicine, medical students, historians, and medical professionals as well as all those seeking to understand the history of medicine. Covering the broad sweep of discoveries from parasitic worms to bacilli and x-rays, and highlighting physicians and scientists from Hippocrates and Galen to Pasteur, Koch, and Roentgen, Ackerknecht narrates Western and Eastern civilization’s work at identifying and curing disease. He follows these discoveries from the library to the bedside, hospital, and laboratory, illuminating how basic biological sciences interacted with clinical practice over time. But his story is more than one of laudable scientific and therapeutic achievement. Ackerknecht also points toward the social, ecological, economic, and political conditions that shape the incidence of disease. Improvements in health, Ackerknecht argues, depend on more than laboratory knowledge: they also require that we improve the lives of ordinary men and women by altering social conditions such as poverty and hunger. This revised and expanded edition includes a new foreword and concluding biographical essay by Charles E. Rosenberg, Ackerknecht’s former student and a distinguished historian of medicine. A new bibliographic essay by Lisa Haushofer explores recent scholarship in the history of medicine.