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No signatures. A few spots of foxing to page edges. A 1"tear at head of dust wrapper spine, and several other 1/2"and smaller tears to margins of the dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; x, 543, [7] pages. Blue cloth boards. Page dimensions: 233 x 151mm. An interesting collection of essays on the history of medicine, from ancient Greek medicine, through the Renaissance to the 20th century. Selected contents: The Historiography of Ideas in Medicine; Greek Medicine as Science and Craft; On Galen's Pneumatology; History of Hippocratism in Late Antiquity: The Third Century and the Latin West; The Byzantine Origin of the Names for the Basilic and Cephalic Veins; The Elusiveness of Paracelsus; Wunderlich, Schelling and the History of Medicine; The Era of Paul Ehrlich; Materialism in French and German Physiology of the Early Nineteenth Century; The Idea of Descent in Post-Romantic German Biology 1848-1858; An Historical Analysis of the Concept of Infection; Merrem's Youthful Dream: The Early History of Experimental Pylorectomy; Fernel, Joubert, and Erastus on the Specificity of Cathartic Drugs; Therapeutic Trends and the Treatment of Syphilis before 1900. ; 4to
Owsei Temkin: The Double Face of Janus and Other Essays in the History of Medicine
Author
Owsei Temkin
Title
The Double Face of Janus and Other Essays in the History of Medicine
Publisher name
The Johns Hopkins University Press (1977), Baltimore
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
1977
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Hard cover
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Very good
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
Vendor rating
Topic
Medical, Generalmedical, History
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