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Medical inventions : the best of health
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bryant, Jill, Author.
- Series:
- Inventions that shaped the modern world Medical inventions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--History--Juvenile literature.
- Medicine.
- Medical innovations--History--Juvenile literature.
- Medical innovations.
- Medical technology--Juvenile literature.
- Medical technology.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Crabtree Publishing 2013
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Innovations in the medical field save countless lives daily. In this fascinating title, a timeline of breakthrough medical inventions is explored through dynamic photographs and interesting fact boxes. Fleming's advances with penicillin and the invention of the X-ray machine are some of the featured inventions that keep us in "the best of health!"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Healers of the ancient world
- Sanitation
- Medical instruments
- X-rays and radiation technologies
- Medicines
- Genetics
- Prosthetics.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-4271-9419-X
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