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  • Nuland, Sherwin B.
    THE DOCTORS' PLAGUE: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Norton, nd [2003.]. First edition - From the back cover: 'Ignac Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining patients. In mid-nineteenth-century Vienna, however, this was a subversive idea. With deaths from childbed fever exploding, Semmelweis discovered that doctors themselves were spreading the disease. While his simple reforms worked immediately, they also threatened the medical establishment and so undid the passionate but self-destructive Semmelweis that he failed to overturn the status quo, leaving it to later medical giants--Pasteur, Lister, and Koch--to establish conclusively the germ theory of disease.' A title in the Great Discoveries series. Bibliographical notes. 189 pp.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 37999
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  • THE MYSTERIES WITHIN: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths. by Nuland, Sherwin B.
    Nuland, Sherwin B.
    THE MYSTERIES WITHIN: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2000). Hardcover first edition - A book by this surgeon who is also an award-winning writer on how human have perceived the organs of our bodies over the centuries - he "shows us how we came to understand the organs from which we've derived the strongest and strangest mythology--stomach, liver, heart, spleen, and uterus. After reading this book, you'll be able to smile appreciatively when someone expresses a 'gut feeling'." Index. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-684854864.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 75774
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