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Delightful accounts of the earliest disease descriptions.,
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This review is from: Classic Descriptions of Disease: With Biographical Sketches of the Authors (Hardcover)
This collection of the earliest descriptions of common diseases provides wonderful insights into how early physicians dealt with diseases which, in most cases, they were incapable of treating. The descriptions pay tribute to the observational skills of the earliest physicians, who had little to offer their patients other than a prognosis based on keen diagnostic skills and careful observation. The introduction by Major to each description provides the setting for understanding the period in which each physician wrote. You do not have to be interested in history to appreciate the perspective this work gives on modern medical practice. This would be a particularly good gift for the student beginning medical school. It was given to me on that occasion 30 years ago and I still enjoy reading the descriptions.
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Classic Descriptions of Disease: With Biographical Sketches of the Authors by Ralph H. Major (Hardcover - June 1978)
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