Renaissance medicine / Nicola Barber.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 46-47) and index.
New ways of thinking -- Breakthroughs in surgery -- Scientific advances -- Renaissance diseases -- Treatments -- Doctors and surgeons -- Caring for the sick.
Renaissance Medicine looks at the new "scientific" ways of learning and experimentation of the Renaissance period, to show what health and disease were like in the Old and New Worlds.