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The Evolution of Modern Medicine

The Evolution of Modern Medicine

Osler, William

Paperback

Medical ReferenceFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1724837826
ISBN13: 9781724837820
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Aug 5 2018
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.22 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
The Evolution of Modern Medicine by William Osler. Including sections on the origin of medicine, Egyptian medicine, Assyrian and Babylonian medicine, Hebrew medicine, Chinese and Japanese medicine, Asklepios, Hippocrates and the Hippocratic writings, Alexandrian school, Galen and Much More. Sir William Osler was a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital. Osler created the first residency program for specialty training of physicians, and he was the first to bring medical students out of the lecture hall for bedside clinical training. He has frequently been described as the Father of Modern Medicine and one of the greatest diagnosticians ever to wield a stethoscope. In a letter to one of the editors, Osler described these lectures as an aeroplane flight over the progress of medicine through the ages. They are, in effect, a sweeping panoramic survey of the whole vast field, covering wide areas at a rapid pace, yet with an extraordinary variety of detail. The slow, painful character of the evolution of medicine from the fearsome, superstitious mental complex of primitive man, with his amulets, healing gods and disease demons, to the ideal of a clear-eyed rationalism is traced with faith and a serene sense of continuity. The author saw clearly and felt deeply that the men who have made an idea or discovery viable and valuable to humanity are the deserving men; he has made the great names shine out, without any depreciation of the important work of lesser men and without cluttering up his narrative with the tedious prehistory of great discoveries or with shrill claims to priority.

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