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The doctor
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Katie Marsico |
"Explore the life of a colonial doctor and his importance to the community, as well as everyday life, responsibilities, and social practices during that time"--Provided by publisher. |
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Your head shape reveals your personality!
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Christine Zuchora-Walske |
"What if someone told you that your liver pumped blood through your body? You'd think that person was crazy! Discover how thought about the human body has changed over the centuries."-- |
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In the arms of Morpheus
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Barbara Hodgson |
Examines how the drinking of laudanum for medical reasons developed and how it became an everyday safeguard against pain, poverty, and boredom. Opium eating was catapulted into fame by the confession… |
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Flu
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Gina Kolata |
The fascinating, true story of the world's deadliest disease. In 1918, the Great Flu Epidemic felled the young and healthy virtually overnight. An estimated forty million people died as the epidemic … |
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Medicine and the German Jews
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John M. Efron |
"Medicine played an important role in the early secularization and eventual modernization of German Jewish culture. And as both physicians and patients, Jews exerted a great influence on the formatio… |
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The Great Influenza
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Amelia Pérez de Villlar,Amelia Pérez de Villlar,Amelia Pérez de Villlar,Amelia Pérez de Villlar,John M. Barry |
At the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It kill… |
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Medical causes
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Tanya Lee Stone |
Features celebrities who have made major commitments to helping others by contributing their time, money, and names for a variety of medical causes. |
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