The rise of preventive medicine / by Sir George Newman
1932, 1st edition. London : Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #435768
Physical description: vi pages, 3 leaves, 270 pages, 1 leaf portraits, plates. Series: Heath Clark lectures ; 1931. Contents: Folk-lore, magic, custom, religion -- Egypt and the mosaic law -- Greek medicine and the Greek spirit -- How Greek medicine reached England -- The Middle Ages and the black death -- The renaissance and the rise of physiology -- Clinical studies of communal disease -- Pathology and bacteriology -- The application of discoveries -- Collective and communal organization of preventive medicine. Subjects: Medicine History. Public health.
Price: €25.00