Discovering major historical topics through the history behind the facts. The story of the history of medicine told in bite-sized chunks

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A bestselling history of medicine, enriched with a new foreword, concluding essay, and bibliographic essay. Erwin H. Ackerknecht’s A Short History of Medicine