Moments of Truth: Four Creators of Modern Medicine
2004; BMJ; Volume: 328; Issue: 7453 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1136/bmj.328.7453.1443-a
ISSN0959-8138
Autores Tópico(s)Medical History and Innovations
ResumoNone of the four 19th century medical personalities who are the subjects of this book won the Nobel prize, but all made important steps in the development of today's medicine. At a time when immediate auscultation and hippocratic succusion (holding patients by their shoulders and shaking them vigorously) were typical diagnostic procedures, the Frenchman Rene Laennec invented the stethoscope and introduced it to clinical practice. Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian obstetrician, proved that puerperal fever was a type of septicaemia and pioneered antiseptic obstetrics. The book's third part focuses on …
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