Physick to Physiology
Title | Physick to Physiology PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Dorrington |
Publisher | Serpent's Tail |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2023-10-19 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1805222074 |
A murder in Main Quad, a near demise high on Mont Blanc, the lady who survived hanging and became a celebrity, Lord Nuffield's dreadful visits to the dentist, and the surgeon who operated on his own hernia using strychnine: all pointers to medical mysteries and advances. This book aims to entertain and inform the reader interested in the advancement of medical science. The author presents seven distinct areas of endeavour in which he has been involved during an Oxford career undertaking original research in engineering, materials science, anaesthesia and physiology while working as a tutor and practising doctor. Each topic is presented and illustrated with novel insights from a historical and often fascinating background extending up to medical controversies of the present day. A final section takes a personal look at the factors which contribute to Oxford's extraordinary ability to nurture medical science.
A Method of Studying Physick
Title | A Method of Studying Physick PDF eBook |
Author | Herman Boerhaave |
Publisher | |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1719 |
Genre | Anatomy |
ISBN |
Discovery in Haste
Title | Discovery in Haste PDF eBook |
Author | Roderick McConchie |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2019-05-20 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3110639181 |
Discovery in Haste is the first book to survey the English printed medical dictionary, a greatly under-researched area, from Andrew Boorde's Breviary of Helthe of 1547 to Benjamin Lara’s surgical dictionary of 1796. The book begins with Andrew Boorde’s Breviary of Helthe of 1547, moves on to medical glossaries, which were produced through the whole period, the ‘physical dictionaries’ of the mid-seventeenth century which first employed ‘dictionary’ in the title, the translation into English of Steven Blancard’s dictionary, Latin medical dictionaries of the late seventeenth century by Thomas Burnet and John Cruso, the influential dictionary by John Quincy which dominated the eighteenth century, surgical dictionaries through to that by Benjamin Lara, Robert James’s massive encyclopaedic dictionary and the work derived from it by John Barrow, as well as George Motherby’s dictionary of 1775. The characteristics of each are discussed and their inter-relationships explored. Attention is also paid to the printing history and the way the publishers influenced the works and, where appropriate, to the influence each had on succeeding dictionaries. This book is the first to locate medical dictionaries within the history of lexicography.
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA
Title | THE ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 980 |
Release | 1919 |
Genre | |
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A Dictionary of the English Language
Title | A Dictionary of the English Language PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Johnson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 918 |
Release | 1805 |
Genre | English language |
ISBN |
The Eclectic Journal of Medicine ...
Title | The Eclectic Journal of Medicine ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 500 |
Release | 1838 |
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Surgery, Its Principles and Practice: History; surgical physiology; surgical pathology; infections; tumors; wounds
Title | Surgery, Its Principles and Practice: History; surgical physiology; surgical pathology; infections; tumors; wounds PDF eBook |
Author | William Williams Keen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1034 |
Release | 1906 |
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