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Hamilton's History of Medicine & Surgery (Hardcover)
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Hamilton's History of Medicine & Surgery (Hardcover)
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William Hamilton's "History of Medicine, Surgery and Anatomy",
penned during the early nineteenth century, is an elegantly written
discussion of the development of medicine and surgery from the dawn
of humanity to the eighteenth century. The authors have rewritten
this chronicle, replacing the British English of the period with
modern American English, to suit a contemporary readership and
thereby add a valuable resource to the arsenal of medical students,
healthcare professionals, and other individuals who wish to study
with enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity the history of medicine
and surgery. The authors hope that this current work makes an
obscure masterpiece readily accessible and comprehensible to the
modern reader. The original 737-page text has been reduced to 161
pages and retitled "Hamilton's History of Medicine and Surgery".
Hamilton's rhetorical flights and repetitions, characteristic of
English non-fiction written during the early nineteenth century,
have been removed to make the text easier to understand, and some
of the more aggressively ethnocentric passages have been removed so
as to provide a fairer account of the development of medicine and
surgery. The authors have included some of Hamilton's original
footnotes and incorporated additional footnotes in order to balance
respect for the original text with the needs and interests of the
modern reader. Contemporary publications to which the reader can
refer in order to study in greater detail various topics noted in
the text are cited in new footnotes. This abridged version
delineates significant events pertaining to medicine and surgery
prior to the nineteenth century and discusses the lives of
historical figures and the paradigms in which they practised the
art of healing in a concise manner. The original text lacks images,
and the authors have incorporated 45 images of historical figures
to enrich this revised version. "Hamilton's History of Medicine and
Surgery" richly portrays the odysseys of medicine's champions and
the social and religious milieus in which their efforts to
alleviate illness took place, and presents to the reader an
opportunity to comprehend more fully the evolution of the art of
healing.
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