The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. Category: Science & Technology ISBN: 0006374549. The book also shows how the ancient Egyptians treated incipient baldness with a mixture of hippopotamus, lion, crocodile, goose, snake and ibex fat how a mystery epidemic devastated ancient Athens and brought to an end the domination of that great city and how lemons did as much as Nelson to defeat Napolean. Starting in ancient times, this text charts how this health revolution came about and how life for human beings in the West has ceased, in Hobbes' memorable phrase, to be "nasty, brutish and short." Porter plots the growth of medical specialisms - pharmacology, physiology, anatomy, neurology, bacteriology - and the institutions of medicine - the hospital and asylum - to show how medical advances have often created as many problems as they have solved. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Medicine advances ever faster, and with it not just a capacity to overcome sickness, but to transform the very nature of life. More specifically: Covers have moderate creasing. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present Roy PorterThe Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. The Greatest Benefit to Mankind by Roy Porter Paperback 34.25 Paperback 34.25 eBook 22. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Fontana Press, UK, 1999.
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