by RichardGordon (Author)
This history of medicine looks at the entertaining aspects of medical development, for example the stethoscope was invented when a Paris physician rolled up a sheet of paper, decorously to hear into a girl's bosom. The book also explains that Victorian doctors were great at identifying diseases that they had no idea how to cure and that Chancellor Bismark was the true originator of the NHS. Richard Gordon is the author of "Doctor in the House".
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd
Published: 25 Feb 1993
ISBN 10: 1856192229
ISBN 13: 9781856192224