This handy manual provides an up-to-date and practical approach to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of health problems that commonly arise during international, tropical and adventure travel. It provides easy access to essential knowledge of vaccines, malaria chemoprophylaxis, travelers’ diarrhea, the travelers’ medical kit and more. Convenient and concise, the Manual has become a standby for those who care for travelling patients and immigrants. The 2nd Edi… More >>
Travel & Tropical Medicine Manual
The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler, Volume 8 – Lectures to Physicians & Medical Students: Medical Course at Urban Hospital & Postgraduate Lectures at Long Island College of Medicine
Volume eight comprises a rare find, twenty-eight of Adler’s unpublished lectures to medical students and physicians. From November to December, 1932, Adler gave a weekly series of seven postgraduate lectures in English at the Long Island College of Medicine in Brooklyn, New York. He also gave a series of at least fifteen lectures in German (dates unknown) at what was identified only as an “Urban Hospital,” somewhere in Europe. All of these never-before-published… More >>
Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic that Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries
Another fascinating foray into medical history from the author of The American Plague
In 1918, a world war was raging, and a lethal strain of influenza was circling the globe. In the midst of all this death, a bizarre disease appeared in Europe. Eventually known as encephalitis lethargica, or sleeping sickness, it would spread across the world, leaving millions dead or locked in institutions.
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