Doctors Divided: Medical Societies in Christchurch 1865-97
used
Author(s): Geoffrey W. Rice
Secondhand. Signed by the author.
Meet some colourful and quarrelsome doctors.
A fascinating and important story of increasing professionalism in a period of major transition from the era of blood-letting and miasmas to the modern medical world of bacteriology and epidemiology, vaccination and aseptic surgery. Surgical successes and failures are detailed, along with treatments of the day for a variety of ailments and diseases.
Fine.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Hawthorne Press with the Cotter Medical History Trust
- : 01 February 2021
- : New Zealand
- : books
Special Fields
- : Geoffrey W. Rice
- : Paperback
- : very good
- : 174