Author: Juergen Kraemer
Publisher: Thieme
Keywords: treatment, prophylaxis, diagnosis, causes, disk, diseases, intervertebral
Number of Pages: 375
Published: 2008-10-27
List price: $169.95
ISBN-10: 3135824039
ISBN-13: 9783135824031

The new edition of this book provides the current information on the diagnostic techniques and therapeutic approaches that will help clinicians optimize care for patients with intervertebral disk disease.

Author: Ignaz Semmelweis
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Keywords: history, science, medicine, fever, childbed, concept, prophylaxis, etiology
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1983-09-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0299093646
ISBN-13: 9780299093648

    In 1859 a Hungarian obstetrician named Ignaz Semmelweis, reflecting on his years as resident in the Vienna maternity clinic, wrote a graphic account of his attempt to diagnose and eliminate the then epidemic scourge of childbed fever.  The resulting Etiology triggered an immediate and international squall of protest from Semmelweis’s colleagues; today it is recognized as a pioneering classic of medical history.  Now, for the first time in many years, Codell Carter makes that classic available to the English-speaking reader in this vivid translation of the 1861 original, augmented b