Titlebook: White Coat Tales; Medicine‘s Heroes, H Robert B. Taylor Book 20081st edition Springer-Verlag New York 2008 Family Medicine.General Medicine

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Drugs and Other Remedieslaboratory notes from a hat decided the patent rights of isoniazid. In this third chapter, I discuss six historically noteworthy compounds—ranging from the opium derivatives to penicillin. As a bonus, I will share some short stories about other familiar medications such as nitrogen mustard, warfarin, and nystatin.

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Drugs and Other Remediesd. There is another important collection of tales; these are about the drugs and other remedies that physicians and scientists have developed to combat the illnesses we all suffer. Some drugs, such as quinine, originally came from botanicals; ergot and penicillin were discovered in fungi; conjugated

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Whose Syndrome? Stories of Medical Eponymssis or Sly syndrome? Frontotemporal lobar degeneration or Pick disease? If you chose the former in each case, you belong to the growing legion of antieponymists. If you prefer the latter choices, you are an old- fashioned eponym fancier.

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Medical Abbreviations, Acronyms, Euphemisms, Jargon, and Slanghey add flavor to what might otherwise be multi-syllabic discussions. These sometimes arcane, occasionally insightful, communication tools allow us to convey information in a shorthand manner, often in ways unintelligible to the non-medical person, at least so we think.

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Memorable Medical Quotationssumably educated persons, such as physicians, to read insightful quotations said and written by our predecessors. These quotes are a valuable part of our heritage, and they afford insights into the thinking of yesterday’s great men and women of medicine. If nothing else, they will expand your consci

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