Doctors and Discoveries: Lives that Created Today's Medicine.JOHN GALBRAITH Noun 1. John Galbraith - United States economist (born in Canada) who served as ambassador to India (born in 1908) Galbraith, John Kenneth Galbraith SIMMONS In 86 biographies of physician scientists, Simmons tells the history of modern medicine. Among the landmark discoveries described are those of the Italian anatomist a·nat·o·mist n. An expert in or a student of anatomy. anatomist one skilled in anatomy. Giovanni Morgagni, who in the mid-1700s clinched the link between many diseases and distinct changes within the body, and French surgeon Alexis Carrel Car·rel , Alexis 1873-1944. French-born American surgeon and biologist. He won a 1912 Nobel Prize for his work on vascular ligature and grafting of blood vessels and organs. , who at the turn of the 20th century demonstrated the plausibility of organ transplants organ transplant: see transplantation, medical. . Simmons also recounts mid-20th-century advances, such as Solomon Snyder's research on the chemistry of the brain and Benjamin Spock's innovations in childcare. HM, 2002, 459 p., b&w photos, hardcover, $24.00. |
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