Mystery, Magic, and Medicine: The Rise of Medicine from Superstition to Science 1933
Howard Wilcox Haggard 1933. A concise history of scientific medicine. Copiously illustrated. There is probably no more fascinating story than that of the rise of scientific medicine. Its beginnings were in mystery and superstition; its progress encumbered with ignorance and quackery. Above these it has risen to become the most beneficent science of the modern world.
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