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The Physician throughout the ages : a record of the doctor from the earliest historical period - embracing a general survey of the practice of medicine - the social history of the doctor - with medical chronology and biographies of outstanding physicians / by Arthur Selwyn-Brown, B.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., LL.D. assisted by distinguished medical specialists. Illustrated.
LIBRA Rare R131 .S5 1928 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Selwyn-Brown, Arthur.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--History.
- Medicine.
- History.
- Medicine--Biography.
- History of Medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- History of Medicine.
- Medicine.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Becker, Joseph M. (former owner)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations, portraits ; 32 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Capehart-Brown Co., Inc., 1928.
- Contents:
- v. I. Book I. Primitive Medicine and the Medical Man; Book II. Practice of Medicine in Antiquity and Post-Roman Times; Book III. Foundations for a New Medical Era; Book IV. The Concepts of Evolution: Their Influences on Medicine; Book V. Inception of American Medicine
- v. 2. Book VI. Medical Progress After the Revolution; Book VII. Modernization of Medicine in America; Book VIII. Physicians' Contributions to Modern Specialization in Medicine; Book IX. The Doctor as an Adventurer in Literature and the Arts.
- Notes:
- Printed March, 1928.
- Text printed in two columns.
- Errata in volumes 1 & 2.
- Publisher's advertisements: [26] pages at end of volume 2.
- "It is the purpose of this work to follow the development of the physician from the remotest times to the present with sufficient detail to enable the reader to form his own conclusions regarding the status of the profession at any given period. Biographies of the outstanding practitioners since classical times are given, also biographical sketches of prominent American physicians of the past century."--Foreword.
- Dark brown embossed cloth cover with recessed image on front cover and gilt lettering. Brown lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph M. Becker, M.D. in 2011.
- Other Format:
- Also issued on microfilm.
- OCLC:
- 1845292
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