Medical inventions
Subtitle: the best of health
By: Jill Bryant
Series: Inventions that shaped the modern world; Inventions that shaped the modern world
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9780778702122; 9780778702320; 9781427194237; 9781427194190
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Ouvrages pour la jeunesse; Medical technology; Medical innovations; Histoire; Medecine; Innovations; Medicine; Juvenile literature; History
Description: "Innovations in the medical field save countless lives daily. In this fascinating title, a timeline of breakthrough medical inventions is explored through dynamic photographs and interesting fact boxes. Fleming's advances with penicillin and the invention of the X-ray machine are some of the featured inventions that keep us in "the best of health!"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

10-13.

Grades 4-6.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Healers of the ancient world; title: Sanitation; title: Medical instruments; title: X-rays and radiation technologies; title: Medicines; title: Genetics; title: Prosthetics.