Scientific Features of Modern Medicine / Frederic S. Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Frederic S., Author.

Series:

Columbia University Lectures

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1911]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Presents the need to induce laymen in the late 1800's to study the human body and appreciate what men of medicine were doing to maintain health and to present, diagnose, treat, and cure disease.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

SCIENTIFIC FEATURES OF MODERN MEDICINE

I. A SKETCH OF THE NORMAL HUMAN BODY

II. THE NATURE OF DISEASE. METHODS OF DIAGNOSING DISEASE

III. METHODS OF TREATING DISEASE

IV. BACTERIA AND PROTOZOA AND THEIR RELATION TO DISEASE

V. THE TREATMENT AND THE PREVENTION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

VI. THE PROBLEM OF CANCER AND OTHER PROBLEMS

VII. FEATURES OF MODERN SURGERY

VIII. THE ROLE OF EXPERIMENT IN MEDICINE. THE PUBLIC AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89021-4

OCLC:

1100440990