The Alarming History of Medicine
Subtitle: Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants
Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin Ed edition
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: September 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312167639
Subjects: History of medicine; Therapeutics; Humor; Medical / Nursing; History; Medical / History; General; Anecdotes; Medicine
First sentence: The history of medicine is not the testament of idealistic seekers after health and life; no more than the history of man is more glorious than a catalogue of selfish and brutish unreason shot spasmodically with sanity.