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The Alarming History of Medicine
by Richard Gordon
St. Martin's Press, New York, 1993, 256pp, HC
[Europe, BC-16C; also Western, 17-20C]
"Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants".
Chapters
- Hippocrates and All That
- Man, Microbes and History
- Discoveries in the Dark
- The Conquest of Pain
- The Gold-headed Cane
- The Demon Barbers
- Sex and its Snags
- Dead Ends
- Odd Practices
- Freud, the English Governess and the Smell of Burnt Pudding
- Scholars, Truants and Teachers' Pets
- The Body Politic
- One Small Step for a Man, One Giant Leap for Mankind
Illustrations
- The first transplant: saintly surgery by Cosmas and Damian
- Vesalius teaching anatomy
- Domicilliary delivery, sixteenth century
- Doctor's plague kit
- Weight watching, 1614
- A touch of royalty: Charles II's TB clinic
- Hogarth's doctors, sniffing their gold-headed canes and tasting their patient's urine
- Juptile and the mad dog in the Institut Pasteur, Paris
- Europe's first anaesthetic. Liston is perform the operation (on the wrong leg)
- Lord Lister's carbolic spray
- The father of medicine, Hippocrates
- St. Anthony and pig, treating patient with St. Anthony's Fire
- Pregnancy simplified
- The water of love: Mal d'Amour by Gerard Dou
- Edward Jenner, the milkmaid's friend
- Punch classic
- Punch chestnut
- Punch medical student
- 'Every day, in every way ...' Coué and patients
- The Lady's lamp
- Routine amputation, late eighteenth century
- Professor Hörlein of Wuppertal
- Sulphonamide patent, 1933
- Pinel frees madmen and madwomen
- The Charcot show: Charcot lecturing on hysteria at the Salpêtrière , Paris
- The found of the NHS, Chancellor von Bismarck
- Talking heads
- Dr. Clover preparing his chloroform
- The gasman cometh
- Darwin's Beagle
- Charles Darwin
- 'Soapy Sam' Wilberforce
- Thomas Huxley
- Piccadilly earth baths
- Lady having enema
- Kay Kendall
- Kay Kendall
- The world's first penicillin factory
- Contemporary complictions of vaccination