Alarming History of Medicine Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants

Name: Alarming History of Medicine Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants
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ISBN: 9780312104115

ISBN-10: 0312104111

ISBN-13: 9780312104115

Edition: 1994

Authors: Richard Gordon

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"A wonderfully humorous - and decidedly unorthodox (!) history of medicine from Hippocrates to the present." "Delightfully witty and richly informative, this new book by the author of the classic Doctor in the House is a collection of anecdotes describing how the historical breakthroughs in medicine were really made. Using hilarious stories, based on actual facts, Gordon shows that most monumental discoveries were originally accidents." "The microscope, for instance, was accidentally invented when Antony van Leeuwenhoek, a seventeenth-century Dutch optician, got two lenses stuck in a tube; he became the first man to see his own spermatozoa. Doctors had traditionally placed their ears on a…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Richard Gordon is recognized as one of the pioneers in the field of energy healing. Today, as the founder of Quantum-Touch, Richard is an internationally acclaimed speaker at conferences, medical centers, chiropractic colleges, and holistic health institutes. Mr. Gordon has been on faculty at Heartwood Institute and The Holistic Health Institute.