Forensic Medicine an Illustrated Reference

Western medicine: an illustrated history

Students of the history of medicine long complained that there was no single volume available that expounded to a general audience the results of the massive changes that have taken place within the subject over the last thirty years. Now, English readers have a choice between three such histories of medicine, and a fourth, written by Roy Porter alone, will appear shortly. Of those in print, th...

Transfusion medicine illustrated: An imPRESsive mimic.

A 20-year-old G1P1 woman presented to a local hospital with a 2-week history of headache, blurry vision, photophobia, edema, and easy bruising. She was found to be hypertensive (blood pressure, 180/90) with acute renal failure (Cr = 8.5), thrombocytopenia (platelet [PLT] count, 81 ¥ 10/L), elevated lactate deydrogenase (LDH; (698 IU/L), and severe microcytic anemia (hemoglobin, 5.9 mg/dL; mean ...

Forensic Medicine

Forensic Medicine

Professor Harvey Littixjohn has made an important contribution to medico-legal literature by publishing an atlas of selected medico-legal subjects from specimens in his collection. The chief feature of the book is the numerous splendid illustrations. Short descriptions of these and introductions to the various subjects are also given. Illustrations in medico-legal works are frequently unconvinc...

Forensic medicine.