01464nam a2200277Ia 4500 TVU_12813 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0198205090 978-0198205098 eng 610.9 I-313 Loudon, Irvine Western medicine An illustrated history Irvine Loudon Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 1997 xvi, 347 p., [24] p. of plates ill. (some col.), facsims. (some col.), maps, ports. (some col.) 25 cm The history begins in ancient Greece, where medical practice, under the auspices of Hippocrates and others, first looked past supernatural explanations and began to understand disease as a product of natural causes. It chronicles the slow growth of medical knowledge through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, illuminating the work of figures such as Paracelsus, Vesalius, and William Harvey (who explained how blood circulates through the body). And it provides portraits of more modern figures like Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch (the fathers of bacteriology), Wilhelm Roentgen (the discoverer of x-rays), and Paul Ehrlich (who pioneered the use of chemicals to destroy disease-causing organisms) Medicine; History of Medicine Irvine Loudon Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh