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Subject: Re: Query: books on the history of medicine
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Date: Tue, 3-Apr-84 05:52:57 EST
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The best introductory books I ever read on the history of medicine were
"The Century of the Surgeon" and a sequel whose name I can't remember. I
also can't remember the author, someone else know? They were written
in the "pseudo" first person, describing a surgeon's life in the days just
before the advent of anesthesia and covering all the major advances (and
miss-advances) that occurred over the next 50-100 years. They were fascinating
and very informative also. The same author also wrote "Century of the
Detective", also well worth reading by people who like technical histories.

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Mark J. Miller
NIH/NCI/DCE/LEC
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