A fascinating account of some of the great medical discoveries, by the author of Great Men of Medicine.
In the last hundred years tremendous discoveries have been made in medical research: radium, a powerful weapon in the battle against cancer; insulin, providing a new life for diabetics; the X-ray; drugs; a way to stamp out yellow fever; penicillin, the first of the spectacular new antibiotics; vitamins; and a serum to prevent diphtheria, the scourge of childhood.
These milestones in medical history are presented here along with vivid and intimate portraits of the discoverers themselves.
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