magic moments and dark hours in the history of medicine text xxu Newton, N.J.] Shanachie Entertainment [2006] monographic eng

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2 videodiscs ( 4 hrs.) : . son., coul. ; 4 3/4 in. The first breath: Pregnancies with complications ; Saving the premature infant ; The scourge of smallpox ; The breakthroughs of Louis Pasteur ; The fight against tuberculosis ; X-rays and seeing into the human body -- The wild years: The birth control pill revolution ; Syphilis: cupid's poison arrow ; The rise of AIDS ; Searching for the human seed ; Battlefield medicine: from bone saws and wound clamps ; Ether, chloroform and laughing gas -- Mid-life: The inner workings of the heart ; The deadly clotting of blood ; Artificial kidneys and dialysis ; The battle against diabetes ; Unraveling the stomach ulcer myster ; Drugs from alchemy to pharmacy ; The miracle of penicillin -- Age and death: Life saving heart transplants ; 200 years of cancer research ; Radiation and chemotherapy ; The fight against blindness ; Mapping the brain ; Alzheimer's: the disease of the 21st century ; DNA and gene. Shanachie Entertainment Corp. Medicine History Stages of life Documentaries R133 170227 20201002072622.0