The Medicine Book Big Ideas Simple Explained 1st edition by Dorling Kindersley 9780744044683 0744044685

ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL MEDICINE • PREHISTORY TO 1600

A shaman to combat disease and death • Prehistoric medicine

A healer of one disease and no more • Ancient Egyptian medicine

The balance of the doshas is freedom from disease • Ayurvedic medicine

We rebuild what fortune has taken away • Plastic surgery

First, do no harm • Greek medicine

A body in balance • Traditional Chinese medicine

Nature itself is the best physician • Herbal medicine

To diagnose, one must observe and reason • Roman medicine

Know the causes of sickness and health • Islamic medicine

Learned, expert, ingenious, and able to adapt • Medieval medical schools and surgery

The vampire of medicine • Bloodletting and leeches

Wars have furthered the progress of the healing art • Battlefield medicine

The art of prescribing lies in nature • Pharmacy

Teach not from books but from dissections • Anatomy

THE SCIENTIFIC BODY • 1600–1820

The blood is driven into a round • Blood circulation

A disease known is half cured • Nosology

Hope of a good, speedy deliverance • Midwifery

The harvest of diseases reaped by workers • Occupational medicine

The peculiar circumstances of the patient • Case history

To restore the sick to health as speedily as possible • Hospitals

Great and unknown virtue in this fruit • Preventing scurvy

The bark of a tree is very efficacious • Aspirin

Surgery has become a science • Scientific surgery

The dangerously wounded must be tended first • Triage

A peculiarity in my vision • Color vision deficiency

No longer feared, but understood • Humane mental health care

Training the immune system • Vaccination

Like cures like • Homeopathy

To hear the beating of the heart • The stethoscope

CELLS AND MICROBES • 1820–1890

Let healthy blood leap into the sick man • Blood transfusion and blood groups

Soothing, quieting, and delightful beyond measure • Anesthesia

Wash your hands • Hygiene

Medicine needs men and women • Women in medicine

All cells come from cells • Histology

They mistook the smoke for the fire • Epidemiology

A hospital should do the sick no harm • Nursing and sanitation

Disturbances at the cellular level • Cellular pathology

Make yourselves masters of anatomy • Gray’s Anatomy

One must replace the scarring tissue • Skin grafts

Life is at the mercy of these minute bodies • Germ theory

A genetic misprint • Inheritance and hereditary conditions

It is from particles that all the mischief arises • Antiseptics in surgery

The field of vital phenomena • Physiology

Defense against intruders • The immune system

A single mosquito bite is all it takes • Malaria

VACCINES, SERUMS, AND ANTIBIOTICS • 1890–1945

Solving the puzzle of cancer • Cancer therapy

The darker shadow of the bones • X-rays

Viruses are alpha predators • Virology

Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious • Psychoanalysis

It must be a chemical reflex • Hormones and endocrinology

The action currents of the heart • Electrocardiography

Strings of flashing and traveling sparks • The nervous system

A peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex • Alzheimer’s disease

Magic bullets • Targeted drug delivery

Unknown substances essential for life • Vitamins and diet

An invisible, antagonistic microbe • Bacteriophages and phage therapy

A weakened form of the germ • Attenuated vaccines

To imitate the action of the pancreas • Diabetes and its treatment

No woman is free who does not own her body • Birth control

Marvelous mold that saves lives • Antibiotics

New windows into the brain • Electroencephalography

Silent disease can be found early • Cancer screening

GLOBAL HEALTH • 1945–1970

We defend everyone’s right to health • The World Health Organization

The artificial kidney can save a life • Dialysis

Nature’s dramatic antidote • Steroids and cortisone

The quietening effect • Lithium and bipolar disorder

A psychic penicillin • Chlorpromazine and antipsychotics

Changing the way you think • Behavioral and cognitive therapy

A new diagnostic dimension • Ultrasound

All the cells had 47 chromosomes • Chromosomes and Down syndrome

Death becomes life • Transplant surgery

A promising but unruly molecule • Interferon

A sensation for the patient • Pacemakers

The center of our immune response • Lymphocytes and lymphatics

The power to decide • Hormonal contraception

Asking for proof of safety • The FDA and thalidomide

A return to function • Orthopedic surgery

Smoking kills • Tobacco and lung cancer

Help to live until you die • Palliative care

GENES AND TECHNOLOGY • 1970 ONWARD

Randomize till it hurts • Evidence-based medicine

Seeing inside the body • MRI and medical scanning

Antibodies on demand • Monoclonal antibodies

Nature could not, so we did • In vitro fertilization

Victory over smallpox • Global eradication of disease

Our fate lies in our genes • Genetics and medicine

This is everybody’s problem • HIV and autoimmune diseases

A revolution through the keyhole • Minimally invasive surgery

The first glimpse of our own instruction book • The Human Genome Project

Fixing a broken gene • Gene therapy

The power of light • Laser eye surgery

Hope for new therapies • Stem cell research

Smaller is better • Nanomedicine

The barriers of space and distance have collapsed • Robotics and telesurgery

Public health enemy number one • Pandemics

To reprogram a cell • Regenerative medicine

This is my new face • Face transplants