A Brief History of Medicine: From Hippocrates' Four Humours to Crick and Watson's Double Helix by Paul Strathern

A Brief History of Medicine: From Hippocrates' Four Humours to Crick and Watson's Double Helix

Paul Strathern

280 pages • first pub 2005 (view editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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The foundations for the scientific study of the body and modern Western medicine as we know it started with William Harvey's discovery of the circulatory system in the early 17th century. But its roots stretch back as far as ancient Greece, when m...

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