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Books by Clifford A. Pickover The Alien IQ Test Archimedes to Hawking A Beginner’s Guide to Immortality Black Holes: A Traveler’s Guide Calculus and Pizza Chaos and Fractals Chaos in Wonderland Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty Computers and the Imagination Cryptorunes: Codes and Secret Writing Dreaming the Future Egg Drop Soup Fractal Horizons: The Future Use of Fractals Frontiers of Scientific Visualization Future Health The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits The Heaven Virus Jews in Hyperspace Keys to Infinity Liquid Earth The Lobotomy Club The Loom of God The Math Book The Mathematics of Oz Mazes for the Mind: Computers and the Unexpected Mind-Bending Visual Puzzles (calendars and card sets) The Möbius Strip The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience A Passion for Mathematics The Pattern Book: Fractals, Art, and Nature The Physics Book The Science of Aliens Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves Spider Legs (with Piers Anthony) Spiral Symmetry (with Istvan Hargittai) The Stars of Heaven Strange Brains and Genius Sushi Never Sleeps Surfing through Hyperspace Time: A Traveler’s Guide Visions of the Future Visualizing Biological Information Wonders of Numbers The Zen of Magic Squares, Circles, and Stars THE MEDICAL BOOK FROM WITCH DOCTORS TO ROBOT SURGEONS, 250 MILESTONES IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE Clifford A. Pickover Author of The Math Book and The Physics Book STERLING and the distinctive Sterling logo are registered trademarks of Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. © 2012 by Clifford A. Pickover All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. ISBN 978-1-4027-8585-6 (hardcover) ISBN 978-1-4027-9233-5 (ebook) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pickover, Clifford A. The medical book : from witch doctors to robot surgeons : 250 milestones in the history of medicine / Clifford A. Pickover. p. ; cm. From witch doctors to robot surgeons : 250 milestones in the history of medicine ISBN 978-1-4027-8585-6 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-1-4027-9233-5 (ebook) I. Title. II. Title: From witch doctors to robot surgeons : 250 milestones in the history of medicine. [DNLM: 1. History of Medicine—Chronology. WZ 30] 610.9—dc23 2011050376 For information about custom editions, special sales, and premium and corporate purchases, please contact Sterling Special Sales at 800-805-5489 or “Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals make progress in discovery.” —Xenophanes of Colophon, c. 500 B.C. “Wherever the art of medicine is loved, there also is love of humanity.” —Hippocrates, c. 400 B.C. Contents Introduction 10,000 B.C. Witch Doctor 6500 B.C. Trepanation 4000 B.C. Urinalysis 3000 B.C. Sutures 2800 B.C. Glass Eye 2400 B.C. Circumcision 2000 B.C. Ayurvedic Medicine 1600 B.C. Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus 1500 B.C. Bloodletting 1000 B.C. Greville Chester Great Toe 600 B.C. Eye Surgery 600 B.C. Sewage Systems 400 B.C. Hippocratic Oath 300 B.C. Huangdi Neijing 100 B.C. Mithridatium and Theriac 70 Abortion 70 Dioscorides’s De Materia Medica 190 Galenic Writings 900 Al-Razi’s Comprehensive Book 1025 Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine 1161 Persecution of Jewish Physicians 1210 Barber Pole 1242 Al-Nafis’s Pulmonary Circulation 1284 Eyeglasses 1346 Biological Weapons 1510 Leonardo’s Anatomical Drawings 1522 Burning of Dr. Wertt 1527 Paracelsus Burns Medical Books 1543 De Humani Corporis Fabrica 1545 Paré’s “Rational Surgery” 1552 Eustachi’s Rescued Masterpieces 1563 De Praestigiis Daemonum 1564 Condom 1580 Obstetrical Forceps 1597 Tissue Grafting 1601 Acupuncture Compendium 1618 Drawings of Pietro da Cortona 1628 Circulatory System 1642 Murder and Wirsung’s Duct 1652 Lymphatic System 1664 Cranial Nerves Classified 1665 Micrographia 1678 Discovery of Sperm 1679 Brunner’s Glands 1683 Zoo Within Us 1687 Discovery of Sarcoptes Scabiei 1689 Separation of Conjoined Twins 1707 Pulse Watch 1726 Mary Toft’s Rabbits 1733 Cheselden’s Osteographia 1747 Albinus’s Tables of the Human Body 1753 A Treatise on Scurvy 1761 Autopsy 1761 Causes of Cancer 1761 Morgagni’s “Cries of Suffering Organs” 1764 Cerebrospinal Fluid 1772 Exploring the Labyrinth 1774 Hunter’s Gravid Uterus 1784 Hospitals 1784 Lavoisier’s Respiration 1785 Digitalis 1792 Ambulance 1793 Unchaining the Lunatics 1796 Alternative Medicine 1796 Phrenology 1798 Smallpox Vaccination 1809 Cerebellum Function 1811 Bell-Magendie Law 1812 Snow Anesthesia 1812 Women Medical Students 1813 Hysterectomy 1816 Stethoscope 1817 Ligation of the Abdominal Aorta 1825 Leech Therapy 1829 Blood Transfusion 1830 Medical Specialization 1832 Anatomy Act of 1832 1832 Intravenous Saline Solutions 1833 Observations of St. Martin’s Stomach 1842 General Anesthesia 1842 The Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain 1846 Panum’s “Measles on the Faroe Islands” 1846 Spirometry 1847 American Medical Association 1847 Semmelweis’s Hand Washing 1848 Appendectomy 1850 Ophthalmoscope 1851 Plaster of Paris Casts 1853 Hypodermic Syringe 1854 Broad Street Pump Handle 1854 Nursing 1855 Cell Division 1857 Treatment of Epilepsy 1858 Gray’s Anatomy 1861 Cerebral Localization 1862 Germ Theory of Disease 1863 Red Cross 1864 Dental Drill 1865 Antiseptics 1865 Mendel’s Genetics 1866 Medical Thermometer 1872 Thyroid Surgery 1873 Cause of Leprosy 1879 Modern Brain Surgery 1881 Sphygmomanometer 1882 Cesarean Section 1882 Koch’s Tuberculosis Lecture 1882 Phagocytosis Theory 1883 Health Insurance 1883 Salpingectomy 1884 Cocaine as Local Anesthetic 1890 Antitoxins 1890 Latex Surgical Gloves 1891 Neuron Doctrine 1892 Discovery of Viruses

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