Dr Mutter s Marvels

• Author : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 31 July 2021

Thomas Mutter was an audacious medical innovator who pioneered the use of ether as anaesthesia, the sterilisation of surgical tools and a compassion- based vision for helping the severely deformed, which clashed with the sentiments of the mid- nineteenth century. Brilliant, outspoken and handsome, Mutter was flamboyant in every aspect of his life. He wore pink silk suits to perform surgery, added an umlaut to his surname just because he could and amassed an immense collection of medical oddities that

• Author : Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 04 September 2014

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country’s most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools—or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mütter began his trailblazing career as a plastic surgeon in Philadelphia during the middle of the nineteenth century. Although he died at just forty-eight,

• Author : Marguerite Vigliani,Gale Eaton,Phillip Hoose
• Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
• Release : 27 June 2017

Vigliani and Eaton’s high-interest exploration of medicine begins in prehistory. The 5,000-year-old Iceman discovered frozen in the Alps may have treated his gallstones, Lyme disease, and hardening of the arteries with the 61 tattoos that covered his body—most of which matched acupuncture points—and the walnut-sized pieces of fungus he carried on his belt. The herbal medicines chamomile and yarrow have been found on 50,000-year-old teeth, and neatly bored holes in prehistoric skulls show that Neolithic surgeons relieved pressure

• Author : Neil Gaiman
• Publisher : Marvel Entertainment
• Release : 24 February 2010

Neil Gaiman's vision of the Marvel Universe in the year 1602! The year is 1602, and strange things are stirring in England. In the service of Queen Elizabeth, court magician Dr. Stephen Strange senses that the bizarre weather plaguing the skies above is not of natural origin. Her majesty's premier spy, Sir Nicholas Fury, fends off an assassination attempt on the Queen by winged warriors rumored to be in service to a mad despot named Doom. News is spreading of "witchbreed" sightings

• Author : Robert S Farmer MD
• Publisher : Lulu Press, Inc
• Release : 23 October 2017

A New, Successful, Unique, Effective, and Definitive approach that recognizes chronic diseases as parasitic infections, and cures them. Exposing medical fallacies and revealing the truth about so-called "incurable" diseases. Why the modern medical model is wrong and your doctor doesn't have a clue. Why modern medicine is insanely expensive, overpriced, and often harmful, actually worse than useless. Contains self-help, medical knowledge, and medical history to explain how to regain much of your youthful beauty and energy, while curing chronic pain,

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 July 2021

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 July 2021

• Author : Nancy S. Kim
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 14 February 2019

Problems regarding the nature of consent are at the heart of many of today's most pressing issues. For example, the #MeToo movement has underscored the need to move beyond viewing consent as a simple matter of yes or no. Consent is complex because humans and their relationships are complicated. Humans, as a result of cognitive limitations and emotional and physical vulnerabilities, are susceptible to manipulation and mistakes. Given the potential for regret, are there some things to which one should

• Author : Pamela Smith,Paula Findlen
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 18 October 2013

The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and technology to show how ideas about the representation of nature, in both art and science, underwent a profound transformation between the age of the Renaissance and the early 1700s.

• Author : Paul E. Stepansky Ph.D.
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release : 23 May 2016

Written by a highly respected medical historian, this book examines how and why medical caring—including the role of touch and procedure in caregiving—has evolved in recent decades and how these changes have affected doctor-patient trust as well as patient health and the "health" of the current medical system. • Draws on medical history since the early 19th century to demonstrate how the procedural aspects of medicine are foundational to trusting doctor-patient relationships • Examines how the diminished authority of physicians

• Author : Gretchen Worden
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 31 July 2021

Home to over 20,000 mind-boggling anatomic specimens, plaster casts, wax models, and paintings, the Mutter Museum, founded in 1858, is part of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. This book features over 100 photographs by a select group of renowned photographers whose work appears in the award-winning Mutter Museum calendars. Highlights include a bust of an early-19th-century Parisian widow with a six-inch horn protruding from the forehead; the connected livers of Chang and Eng, the world-famous Siamese twins; the skeleton of a 7

• Author : Lee McIntyre
• Publisher : Mit Press
• Release : 07 April 2020

Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is "only a theory," and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from the public are staples of some politicians' rhetorical repertoire. In this book, Lee McIntyre argues that what distinguishes science from its rivals is what he calls "the scientific attitude"-caring about evidence and being willing to change theories on the basis of new evidence. The history of science is

• Author : Rebecca Gibson
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 31 July 2021

• Author : Thomas Schlich
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 12 December 2017

This handbook covers the technical, social and cultural history of surgery. It reflects the state of the art and suggests directions for future research. It discusses what is different and specific about the history of surgery - a manual activity with a direct impact on the patient’s body. The individual entries in the handbook function as starting points for anyone who wants to obtain up-to-date information about an area in the history of surgery for purposes of research or

• Author : Martin R. Lipp
• Publisher : McGraw-Hill
• Release : 31 July 1991