The Medicine Book  34573

  • Ancient and Medieval Medicine: Prehistory to 1600[rtoc]
    • A shaman to combat disease and death: Prehistoric medicine
    • A healer of one disease and no more: Ancient Egyptian medicine
    • The balance of the doshas is freedom from disease: Ayurvedic medicine
    • We rebuild what fortune has taken away: Plastic surgery
    • First, do no harm: Greek medicine
    • A body in balance: Traditional Chinese medicine
    • Nature itself is the best physician: Herbal medicine
    • To diagnose, one must observe and reason: Roman medicine
    • Know the causes of sickness and health: Islamic medicine
    • Learned, expert, ingenious, and able to adapt: Medieval medical schools and surgery
    • The vampire of medicine: Bloodletting and leeches
    • Wars have furthered the progress of the healing art: Battlefield medicine
    • The art of prescribing lies in nature: Pharmacy
    • Teach not from books but from dissections: Anatomy[/rtoc]
  • The Scientific Body: 1600-1820[rtoc]
    • The blood is driven into a round: Blood circulation
    • A disease known is half cured: Nosology
    • Hope of a good, speedy deliverance: Midwifery
    • The harvest of diseases reaped by workers: Occupational medicine
    • The peculiar circumstances of the patient: Case history
    • To restore the sick to health as speedily as possible: Hospitals
    • Great and unknown virtue in this fruit: Preventing scurvy
    • The bark of a tree is very efficacious: Aspirin
    • Surgery has become a science: Scientific surgery
    • The dangerously wounded must be tended first: Triage
    • A peculiarity in my vision: Colour vision deficiency
    • No longer feared, but understood: Humane mental health care
    • Training the immune system: Vaccination
    • Like cures like: Homeopathy
    • The hear the beating of the heart: The stethoscope[/rtoc]
  • Cells and microbes, 1820-1890[rtoc]
    • Let the healthy blood leap into the sick man: Blood transfusion and blood groups
    • Soothing, quieting, and delightful beyond measure: Anaesthesia
    • Wash your hands: Hygiene
    • Medicine needs men and women: Women in medicine
    • All cells come from cells: Histology
    • They mistook the smoke for the fire: Epidemiology
    • A hospital should do the sick no harm: Nursing and sanitation
    • Disturbances at the cellular level: Cellular pathology
    • Make yourselves masters of anatomy: Gray’s Anatomy
    • One must replace the scarring tissue: Skin grafts
    • Life is at the mercy of these minute bodies: Germ theory
    • A genetic misprint: Inheritance and hereditary conditions
    • It is from particles that all the mischief arises: Antiseptics in surgery
    • The field of vital phenomena: Physiology
    • Defence against intruders: The immune system
    • A single mosquito bite is all it takes: Malaria[/rtoc]
  • Vaccines, Serums and Antibiotics, 1890-1945[rtoc]
    • Solving the puzzle of cancer: Cancer therapy
    • The darker shadow of the bones: X-rays
    • Viruses are alpha predators: Virology
    • Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious: Psychoanalysis
    • It must be a chemical reflex: Hormones and endocrinology
    • The action currents of the heart: Electrocardiography
    • Strings of flashing and travelling sparks: The nervous system
    • A peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex: Alzheimer’s disease
    • Magic bullets: Targeted drug delivery
    • Unknown substances essential for life: Vitamins and diet
    • An invisible, antagonistic microbe: Bacteriophages and phage therapy
    • A weakened form of the germ: Attenuated vaccines
    • To imitate the action of the pancreas: Diabetes and its treatment
    • No woman is free who does not own her own body: Birth control
    • Marvellous mould that saves lives: Antibiotics
    • New windows into the brain: Electroencephalography
    • Silent disease can be found early: Cancer screening[/rtoc]
  • Global Health, 1945-1970[rtoc]
    • We defend everyone’s right to health: The World Health Organization
    • The artificial kidney can save a life: Dialysis
    • Nature’s dramatic antidote: Steroids and cortisone
    • The quietening effect: Lithium and bipolar disorder
    • A psychic penicillin: Chlorpromazine and antipsychotics
    • Changing the way you think: Behavioural and cognitive therapy
    • A new diagnostic dimension: Ultrasound
    • All the cells had 47 chromosomes: Chromosomes and Down syndrome
    • Death becomes life: Transplant surgery
    • A promising but unruly molecule: Interferon
    • A sensation for the patient: Pacemakers
    • The centre of our immune response: Lymphocytes and lymphatics
    • The power to decide: Hormonal contraception
    • Asking for proof of safety: The FDA and thalidomide
    • A return to function: Orthopaedic surgery
    • Smoking kills: Tobacco and lung cancer
    • Help to live until you die: Palliative care[/rtoc]
  • Genes and Technology: 1970 onwards[rtoc]
    • Randomize till it hurts: Evidence-based medicine
    • Seeing inside the body: MRI and medical scanning
    • Antibodies on demand: Monoclonal antibodies
    • Nature could not, so we did: In vitro fertilization
    • Victory over smallpox: Global eradication of disease
    • Our fate lies in our genes: Genetics and medicine
    • This is everybody’s problem: HIV and autoimmune diseases
    • A revolution through the keyhole: Minimally invasive surgery
    • The first glimpse of our own human instruction book: The Human Genome Project
    • Fixing a broken gene: Gene therapy
    • The power of light: Laser eye surgery
    • Hope for new therapies: Stem cell research
    • Smaller is better: Nanomedicine
    • The barriers of space and distance have collapsed: Robotics and telesurgery
    • Public health enemy number one: Pandemics
    • To reprogram a cell: Regenerative medicine
    • This is my new face: Face transplants[/rtoc]
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