MCR American Pharmaceuticals Inc

Author: Sherwin B. Nuland

Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Keywords: Gynecology

Rubric: Pharmacology coloring books

ISBN: 0393052990

A great medical detective story, by the author of the best-selling How We Die.Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland is one of our finest chroniclers of the history of medicine. Obsessed for twenty-five years with Ignac Semmelweis's strange story, Nuland tells it with the urgency and insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. 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…

Semmelweis is one of the heroes of modern medicine for discovering lack of physician hygiene was killing mothers giving birth. His reforms worked immediately to eliminate childbed fever and for that… In a short, readable volume, Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D. has succeeded in telling the story of a brilliant man whose findings changed medical science completely, and might have helped those changes take…

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