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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL MEDICINE PREHISTORY TO 1600
A shaman to combat disease and death
A healer of one disease and no more
The balance of the doshas is freedom from disease
We rebuild what fortune has taken away
First, do no harm
A body in balance
Nature itself is the best physician
To diagnose, one must observe and reason
Know the causes of sickness and health
Learned, expert, ingenious, and able to adapt
The vampire of medicine
Wars have furthered the progress of the healing art
The art of prescribing lies in nature
Teach not from books but from dissections
THE SCIENTIFIC BODY 1600–1820
The blood is driven into a round
A disease known is half cured
Hope of a good, speedy deliverance
The harvest of diseases reaped by workers
The peculiar circumstances of the patient
To restore the sick to health as speedily as possible
Great and unknown virtue in this fruit
The bark of a tree is very efficacious
Surgery has become a science
The dangerously wounded must be tended first
A peculiarity in my vision
No longer feared, but understood
Training the immune system
Like cures like
To hear the beating of the heart
CELLS AND MICROBES 1820 –1890
Let healthy blood leap into the sick man
Soothing, quieting, and delightful beyond measure
Wash your hands
Medicine needs men and women
All cells come from cells
They mistook the smoke for the fire
A hospital should do the sick no harm
Disturbances at the cellular level
Make yourselves masters of anatomy
One must replace the scarring tissue
Life is at the mercy of these minute bodies
A genetic misprint
It is from particles that all the mischief arises
The field of vital phenomena
Defense against intruders
A single mosquito bite is all it takes
VACCINES, SERUMS, AND ANTIBIOTICS 1890 –1945
Solving the puzzle of cancer
The darker shadow of the bones
Viruses are alpha predators
Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious
It must be a chemical reflex
The action currents of the heart
Strings of flashing and traveling sparks
A peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex
Magic bullets
Unknown substances essential for life
An invisible, antagonistic microbe
A weakened form of the germ
To imitate the action of the pancreas
No woman is free who does not own her body
Marvelous mold that saves lives
New windows into the brain
Silent disease can be found early
GLOBAL HEALTH 1945 –1970
We defend everyone’s right to health
The artificial kidney can save a life
Nature’s dramatic antidote
The quietening effect
A psychic penicillin
Changing the way you think
A new diagnostic dimension
All the cells had 47 chromosomes
Death becomes life
A promising but unruly molecule
A sensation for the patient
The center of our immune response
The power to decide
Asking for proof of safety
A return to function
Smoking kills
Help to live until you die
GENES AND TECHNOLOGY 1970 ONWARD
Randomize till it hurts
Seeing inside the body
Antibodies on demand
Nature could not, so we did
Victory over smallpox
Our fate lies in our genes
This is everybody’s problem
A revolution through the keyhole
The first glimpse of our own instruction book
Fixing a broken gene
The power of light
Hope for new therapies
Smaller is better
The barriers of space and distance have collapsed
Public health enemy number one
To reprogram a cell
This is my new face
DIRECTORY
GLOSSARY
INDEX
QUOTE ATTRIBUTIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS