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  • A Surgeon of the Eighth Illinois Cavalry (Abridged, Annotated)

    by Dr. Abner Hard ...
    As the regimental surgeon for the Eighth Cavalry during the American Civil War, Dr. Abner Hard saw it all. His troops were at Manassas, Gettysburg, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Boonesboro, Brandy Station, Fredericksburg, and more.When the bullets stopped, Dr. Hard took upon himself the task of documenting the privations, sorrows, and bravery of the fighting men of the Eighth during their long years ... Read more

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  • William Osler: A Life in Medicine

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    William Osler was born in a parsonage in backwoods Canada on July 12, 1849. In a life lasting seventy years, he practiced, taught, and wrote about medicine at Canada's McGill University, America's Johns Hopkins University, and finally as Regius Professor at Oxford. At the time of his death in England in 1919, many considered him to be the greatest doctor in the world. Osler, who was a brilliant, ... Read more

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  • Separate Beds

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  • The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy:Bodies, books, fortune, fame

    Bodies, books, fortune, fame

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  • Secret Science

    A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments

    by Ulf Schmidt ...
    From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole army of over 21,000 soldiers had participated in secret experiments between 1939 and 1989. Some remembered their stay as harmless, but there were ... Read more

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  • On Ancient Medicine (Illustrated Edition)

    by Hippocrates ...
    Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.) is one of the best known of the Ancient Greeks, and his Hippocratic Oath is still in use today. An ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles and the Golden Age of Athens, Hippocrates is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine, known simply as the Father of Western medicine in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as ... Read more

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    by Stephanie Griffiths, Jarkko Jalava, Michael Maraun ...
    By some estimates, there are as many as twelve million psychopaths in the United States alone. Cold-blooded, remorseless, and strangely charismatic, they commit at least half of all serious and violent crimes. Supposedly, most serial killers are psychopaths, as, surprisngly, are large numbers of corporate executives. They seem to be an inescapable, and fascinating, threat in our midst.But is ... Read more

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  • Landmark Papers in Allergy

    Seminal Papers in Allergy with Expert Commentaries

    by Stephen Holgate (Advisory Editor) ...
    Series series Landmark Papers in
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    by Howard I. Kushner ...
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  • The Insanity of Place / The Place of Insanity

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