Full Description
This 2nd edition sheds new light on the curious side of Medical History. Carl Sagan said: "You have to know the past to understand the present." This collection of 100 short stories, written by experts in the field, inspires curiosity and provides a detailed look at the History of Medicine.
It investigates many topics, including ancient Egyptian knowledge, the fundamental importance of toothache and how it birthed Anesthesia, and why and when women were allowed to run marathons. The authors report on the background of rubber gloves, the stethoscope and the intraocular lens. Historically important biographies are included, such as those of Arthur Conan Doyle, Napoleon Bonaparte and Claude Monet.
The book is also available as an audio version. It is relevant for those interested in Medicine and its curious history.
Contents
1. 1. Alhazen. Madness to Mosque.- 2. Apple. Ocular Pathology and David J. Apple.- 3. Atropos. The Terrible Daughter.- 4. Auenbrugger. Thumping to Tapping.- 5. Bach. God Listens When the Angels Play Bach.- 6. Barbieri. Il Guercino (The Cross-Eyed).- 7. Berger. A Tiny Space with Big Implications.- 8. Biometry. Calculating the Human Eye.- 9. Bleuler. From "Madness" to Modern Psychiatry.- 10. Blonsky: Flying Babies?.- 11. Blue: Blue - a Late Entry.- 12. Borodin: Science, Music and the Eye.- 13. Brandström. The Angel of Siberia.- 14. Braille. Braille Brings "Light" into Darkness.- 15. Bruegel. Art, the Bible and the Blind.- 16. Cassatt. An Insight into Her Eyesight.- 17. Chinin: Famous Men and the Lady.- 18. Contraception: Dung and Birth.- 19. Couching Cataracts: Just push it down!.- 20. Credé. Credé, a Baby, and Silver Nitrate.- 21. Diabetes. A New Life.- 22. Doyle. Crime and Medicine.- 23. Düsing. Nature's Unexpected Baby Boom.- 24. Dunant. From Riches to Rags.- 25. Epilepsy. Divine or Demonic?.- 26. Ether. The Birth of Modern Anaesthesia: The Death of Friendships.- 27. Eye Banking. Eye Banking and the Lions.- 28. Fercher. A Quantum Leap in Modern Cataract Surgery.- 29. Finger Print. Your Skin and Your Identity.- 30. Football for the Blind. If You Hear "Voy!" Watch Out!.- 31. Franklin. From Reading Stones to Bifocals.- 32. Glass Eyes. Sammy Davies Jr, Peter Falk, and Dr. Heinrich Adelmann: What do they have in common?.- 33. Gödel. The Genius and his Taster.- 34. Goethe. Genius Gone Wrong?.- 35. Guide Dogs. The Four-Footed Eyes of the Blind.- 36. El Greco. A Hundred Years of Fallacies.- 37. Gullstrand. Ophthalmologist Wins Nobel Prize.- 38. Gustav II. Adolf. Myopia, Oh My!.- 39. Haidinger. The Mystery in the Eye - Haidinger and the Vikings.- 40. Haldane. Blood and Breath.- 41. Hales. The Doctor and His Horse.- 42. Halsted. A Glove for Love.- 43. Helium. An Enema for Performance.- 44. Helmholtz. How to "See" the Back of the Eye.- 45. Hysteria. Hysteria and the Hammer.- 46. IOL Material. A Cloudy World is Cleared.- 47. IOL Power Calculation.- 48. Iry. Egypt 2400 BCE: Iry - The First Known Ophthalmologist.- 49. Jersey. 33 Meters Below the Surface.- 50. Jastrow. Do you trust your eyes??.- 51. Jung-Stilling. The Castle, the Ghost and, the Ophthalmologist.- 52. Keller. Helen Keller and the "Knights of the Blind".- 53. Kirschner. The Pain Went Away.- 54. Kneipp. The Priest and the "Water Cure".- 55. Kohl. Kohl - Protective or Toxic?.- 56. Korotkow. Listen and Learn!.- 57. Laënnec. The Extendable Ear.- 58. LASER. "A solution in search of a problem".- 59. Leprosy. "The Punishment of God"?.- 60. LSD. Hellfire, Hallucinogen or Remedy?.- 61. Lully. The Maestro Who Danced with Death.- 62. Mann, Ida. A Woman in a Man's World.- 63. Marathon. The Ladies and the "Marathon Doctor".- 64. Marfan. Spider Fingers and Near- Sightedness.- 65. Meyer-Schwickerath. The "Trapped Sun".- 66. Methamphetamine. Fuel for the Soldiers?.- 67. Monet. The Cataract and the Water Lily.- 68. Mozart. Vesalius to Mozart via Chocolate.- 69. Napoleon. The "Butt" of History.- 70. OCT. OCT is Not the Month!.- 71. Odilia. Saint of the Blind.- 72. Optography. The Last Image.- 73. OVD. Angel Cake Batter and the Eye.- 74. Paganini. Priapism and Paganini.- 75. Poppies. Beautiful but toxic - and healthy??.- 76. Pythagoras. Pythagoras, the Bean-Banner?.- 77. Quarantine. Relevant. Yes.- 78. Radium. Radium as a Cure for Blindness?.- 79. Ridley. Fortune from Misfortune.- 80. Santorio. The Man who Lived on a Scale.- 81. Sauerbruch. Tyrant, Genius, and Friend of Hitler.- 82. Schweitzer. The Polymath and the People.- 83. Scopoli. Poison, Drugs and Medicine.- 84. Steiniger. The Weird Beard.- 85. Taylor. A Gold Plated Charlatan.- 86. Toothpaste. Smile: From Powdered Bone to Minty Fresh.- 87. Turner. The Sea, Art and, Cataracts.- 88. Tyndall: Tyndall, the Polymath.- 89. Ultrasound. Bats Have It!.- 90. Urine. The Golden Elixir.- 91. da Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci's dream.- 92. Visual Aids. Adding to the Eye.- 93. Voltaire. The Brewed Affair.- 94. Washington. America's Historical Tooth.- 95. White Cane. To See or Be Seen.- 96. Wichterle. A "Softer" Way to See.- 97. Xenocrates. "Nasty" Business.- 98. Yersinia pestis. Passion for Vietnam and Science.- 99. Zamenhof. Ophthalmologist and the "Non-Nation".- 100. Zirm. Banking on Sight.
