Author: THOMAS, LEWIS (1913-1993)
Title: The youngest science : notes of a medicine- watcher / Lewis Thomas
Description: Oxford : Oxford University Press 1984. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and sharp-cornered.Provenance; presentation bookplate from the Birmingham Medical Institute. being presented by Mrs. Naughton-Dunn. Series; Oxford paperbacks. Physical description; x. 276 p. ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Amity Street -- House calls -- 1911 medicine -- 1933 medicine -- 1937 internship -- Leech. leech. et cetera -- Nurses -- Neurology -- Guam and Okinawa -- Itinerary -- NYU pathology -- NYU Bellevue medicine -- The board of health -- Endotoxin -- Cambridge -- The governance of a university -- Rheumatoid arthritis and mycoplasmas -- MSKCC: the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre -- Olfaction and the tracking mouse -- Illness -- Scabies. scrapie -- Essays and Gaia. Subjects; Thomas. Lewis (1913-1993). 20th Century. Physicians - United States - Biography. Physicians - Personal Narratives. Physicians - Biography. History of Medicine. Genre; Biographies. ISBN: 0192177354. Weight in Kg appr.:

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