Even Immortality
Thomas Laqueur: Medicomania, 29 July 1999
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present
by Roy Porter.
HarperCollins, 833 pp., £24.99, February 1999,0 00 637454 9 Show More
by Roy Porter.
HarperCollins, 833 pp., £24.99, February 1999,
“... of named physiological processes – Babinski’s sign, the Pavlovian conditioned reflex, Cheyne-Stokes breathing – and even more diseases: Bright’s, Addison’s and Hodgkin’s for the ‘great men of Guy’s’ who in the early 19th century absorbed the traditions of Paris medicine and described, respectively, the diseases of the kidney, adrenal glands ... ”