London (Ancient And Modern) From The Sanitary And Medical Point Of View
Author(s): George Vivian Poore
Genre(s): Medical, Technology & Engineering
Narrators: David Wales
Number of Chapters: 10
Length: 04 hours and 18 minutes
Language: English
This little book is an expansion of two addresses delivered in January, 1889. One deals with sanitary issues in London. The other deals with medical issues, mainly through the lives and careers of physicians. Though ancients are included, the main emphasis is upon the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. - Summary by Book Preface and David Wales
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Chapter 1 - London From The Sanitary Point Of View: Situation; Water Supply; Medieval London (David Wales)
Ditto: The London 'Death Rate'; Improved Conditions Of Modern London; What Is The Outlook?; Annual Death Rate Per 100,000 Living Children; The Loose Ends Of Our Sanitation (David Wales)
Chapter 2 - London From The Medical Point Of View: Chaucer's Doctor; Earliest London Practitioners; The Severance Of Medicine And Surgery; The Earliest Medical Act (David Wales)
Ditto: Secret Remedies; The Crusade Against Quackery; Medicine In The Days Of Pepys; The Barber Surgeons; The First Anatomy Lectures; The Apothecaries (David Wales)
The audiobook London (Ancient And Modern) From The Sanitary And Medical Point Of View falls under the genres of Medical, Technology & Engineering. It is written by George Vivian Poore.