Titlebook: White Coat Tales; Medicine‘s Heroes, H Robert B Taylor Book 2016Latest edition Springer-Verlag New York 2016 Culture of Medicine.Current an

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Diseases That Changed Historyns that impact our lives today. This chapter will describe six of these epidemics: plague, smallpox, malaria, syphilis, influenza, and tuberculosis. As a bonus, the chapter will tell about yellow fever and America’s slave trade, Captain Cook and scurvy, hemophilia as the curse of the Romanovs, and m

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Whose Syndrome? Stories of Medical Eponymscribe a phenomenon, a historical or literary figure, or even the patient first reported with the disease. Think of Addison disease (adrenal insufficiency), Pickwickian syndrome (pulmonary alveolar hypoventilation associated with corpulence), or Christmas disease (the name of the person first describ

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Medical Aphorisms ancient times and continues today. This chapter discusses some of the memorable sayings of Hippocrates, Maimonides, and Osler, plus some selected aphorisms on the topics of diagnosis, treatment, and academic medicine.

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Memorable Medical Quotations presents a selection of these—noteworthy quotations about life, health, disease, death, and the practice of medicine. Here you will find the words of Claudius Galen, William Harvey, John Snow, Sarah Bernhardt, George Bernard Shaw, Jonas Salk, Eric Topol, and many others.

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Famous Persons as Patientsrsons with familiar names who had diseases such as gout, agoraphobia, depression, epilepsy, Alzheimer disease, and more—and the effect these illnesses had on others. Of course, historical records and legend are sometimes on shaky ground, and Chap. . tells some instances of retrospective diagnosis, i

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Short Tales of Serendipity, Curiosities, Medical Trivia, Authorship, and Speculationt the written works we rely on, and some insights into how diseases may (or may not) have influenced events in history. What are koro, jumping disease, and the Kochleffel syndrome? What did plague have to do with sheep in England today? And what illness might have played a role in the legendary Hatf