The Alarming History of Medicine

Amusing Anecdotes from Hippocrates to Heart Transplants

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Gordon here presents unusual insights into medical advances. He demonstrates that many medical milestones resulted from fallacies, luck or serendipity--citing the role of barbers and warfare in promoting surgery--and that forgotten laboratory bacterial specimens led to a cholera vaccine and the discovery of penicillin.

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on 25/6/23

Mr. Gordon’s narrative covers some important checkpoints throughout medicine which revolutionized and refined technologies, entire line of thoughts, methods, practices, ideologies and parameters which were responsible for saving many lives and the evolution of science guided by the Hippocratic oath. Science was and still is interfering in the death business, which its stages shown by chronological order, to say the least, made dogmas very unhappy. The medical profession has a well-do... leia mais