Weaver, John C. Hamilton: An Illustrated History

Pharmacy: an illustrated history

Coleman, had trained in human surgery and made no attempts, in more than 40 years of teaching at the College, to cover subjects unconnected with horses. It was not until, as the Royal Veterinary College, the institution entered its second century under John McFadyean in the 1890s that veterinary education in Britain achieved the same academic standards as other professions at home, and similar ...

Otolaryngology: an illustrated history

with these subjects developed two goals representing two separate strategies: forbidding only harmful ingredients and additions, on the one hand, and, on the other, demanding labelling of ingredients to inform the consumer. Milk was often the focus of independent campaigns. Protecting the public from impure ingestions also became an important element in the public health movement as it develope...

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...

American surgery: an illustrated history

by the horrors Dean so lavishly catalogues, and overkill and compassion fatigue soon set in. The account of the psychological sequelae of the war and their clinical treatment is absorbing, but sheds little light on modem problems. It is unclear whether Dean commends or deplores the harshness with which so many of these cases were handled; unclear, too, as the book progresses, whether comparison...

Smoking aloft: an illustrated history.