Excerpt from Doctors and Patients, or Anecdotes of the Medical World and Curiosities of Medicine, Vol. 2 of 2 The ravages Of the small-pox might fairly be termed the scourge of mankind, and an enemy more extensive and more insidious in its warfare than even the plague. A family blighted in its various hopes, through this terrible visitation, was an everyday spectacle: the imperial house of Austria lost eleven of its Offspring by the small-pox in fifty years alone 3 the grand father of Maria Theresa died of it. 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.

Excerpt from Doctors and Patients, or Anecdotes of the Medical World and Curiosities of MedicineStarks, of Edinburgh, who lost his life by subsisting almost en tirely upon it. Some people have been unable to take mutton, even when administered in the microscopic form of pills. There isthecaseofa man falling down atthesmellof mutton, asif bereaved of life, and in strong convulsions. Sir James Eyre, in his well-known little book, mentions three curious cases of idio ayncrasy: the case of a gentleman who could noteatasingle strawberry with impunity; the case of another whme head would become frightfully swollen if he touched the smallest par tiole of hare; the case of a third who would inevitably have an attack of gout a few hours after eating fish.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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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From the author of How We Die, the extraordinary story of the development of modern medicine, told through the lives of the physician-scientists who paved the way. How does medical science advance? Popular historians would have us believe that a few heroic individuals, possessing superhuman talents, lead an unselfish quest to better the human condition. But as renowned Yale surgeon and medical historian Sherwin B. Nuland shows in this brilliant collection of linked life portraits, the theory bears little resemblance to the truth. Through the centuries, the men and women who have shaped the world of medicine have been not only very human, but also very much the products of their own times and places. Presenting compelling studies of great medical innovators and pioneers, Doctors gives us a fascinating history of modern medicine. Ranging from the legendary Father of Medicine, Hippocrates, to Andreas Vesalius, whose Renaissance masterwork on anatomy offered invaluable new insight into the human body, to Helen Taussig, founder of pediatric cardiology and co-inventor of the original "blue baby" operation, here is a volume filled with the spirit of ideas and the thrill of discovery.