medicine

Presents a collection of over 60,000 words and phrases related to the medical field, including definitions of health-care terms, medications, abbreviations, and more.

Gives an overview of the medical profession and its various specialized fields.

Examines the development of medicine, diagnostic devices, drugs, surgical procedures, and replacement parts.

Discusses several strange diseases, remarkable malformations, uncommon and gruesome ways of death, and unlikely feats of fasting or gluttony, which proliferated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries' medical literature, and shows that sometimes these curiosities did occur.

Twenty-nine essays present explorations and observations on a variety of scientific and medical subjects.

A reference companion for those working in, or interested in, medicine and its related fields. Contains entries on various aspects of the medical sciences, including all branches of medicine, medical and disease terminology, and medical institutions.

Contains over thirty-seven thousand alphabetized entries on medical terms, including prescription brand names and generics, and provides usage examples.