Illustrated History Of Medicine: A Medical Exploration In Fifty Objects

Description

The Illustrated History of Medicine takes readers on a 12,000-year journey by exploring fifty objects that open windows onto different aspects of medical history.Objects are listed chronologically, and include: a Neolithic Trapanned Skull (c.10,000 bce); Clay Tablets from the Library of Assurbanipal (7th century bce); Avicenna's Tomb in Hamadan, Iran (1037); a Plague Doctor Mask (17th century); John Snow's Cholera Map (1854); the Snellen Chart for Eye Tests (1862); Alexander Flemming's Petri Dish (1928); a Red ribbon for AIDs awareness (1991).

Author description

Gill Paul studied Medicine at Glasgow University in Scotland and now works as an author specializing in health and historical fiction and non-fiction. Her health books include the Eat Yourself series on nutrition, four Pilates books written with Alan Herdman, and TV tie-ins to the series Food Hospital and Biggest Loser. Her next novel, The Secret Wife, set in Russia in 1918, will be published in September 2016.