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History of British neurology /
Diseases of the nervous system are a relatively small but vitally important part of medicine. There was no scientific basis for diagnosis or treatment until the seventeenth century when Dr Thomas Willis (1621-1675) and his team tackled anatomy by dissection of the nervous system, physiology by anima...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ :
Imperial College Press ; World Scientific Pub. Co.,
©2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Diseases of the nervous system are a relatively small but vitally important part of medicine. There was no scientific basis for diagnosis or treatment until the seventeenth century when Dr Thomas Willis (1621-1675) and his team tackled anatomy by dissection of the nervous system, physiology by animal experiments and pathology by post-mortem analysis. It was Willis who first used the word "neurology" and his team, who were among the founders of the Royal Society, included Christopher Wren who, besides being famous as an architect of London's churches, drew the first modern diagram of the human |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 324 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1848166699 9781848166691 |