Doctors on Horseback: Pioneers of American Medicine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780823213795)

The man in the street would not, perhaps, recognize all the names of the brilliant scientists whose careers and personalities animate this book, but doctors know them. Morgan, who founded the first medical school in American and, fighting beside Washington, was ruined b the petty politics of the Revolution; McDowell, who, although on the fringe of the wilderness, dared the operation that prepared the way for all abdominal surgery; Rush, the equivocal personality who, for better or worse, dominated American medicine for more than fifty years; Beaumont, who, saving a life, won a living laboratory; Drake, who brought modern medicine to the New West; Long and Morton, who banished pain from surgery and earned it for themselves - these men are honored in their profession today.

Author: James T. Flexner
ISBN-10: 082321379X
ISBN-13: 9780823213795
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1993
Pages: 370
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.54h x 5.58w x 0.87d