The Physician - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Physician write by Noah Gordon. This book was released on 2012-06-05. The Physician available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An orphan leaves Dark Ages London to study medicine in Persia in this “rich” and “vivid” historical novel from a New York Times–bestselling author (The New York Times). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift—an acute sensitivity to impending death—never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer. Arab madrassas are the only authentic medical schools, and he makes his perilous way to Persia. Christians are barred from Muslim schools, but claiming he is a Jew, he studies under the world’s most renowned physician, Avicenna. How the woman who is his great love struggles against her only rival—medicine—makes a riveting modern classic. The Physician is the first book in New York Times–bestselling author Noah Gordon’s Dr. Robert Cole trilogy, which continues with Shaman and concludes with Matters of Choice.
The Royal Physician's Visit
The Royal Physician's Visit - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Royal Physician's Visit write by Per Olov Enquist. This book was released on 2001-10-29. The Royal Physician's Visit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A handsome doctor stirs up scandal in the eighteenth-century Danish royal court in this “extraordinarily elegant and gorgeous novel” (Los Angeles Times). The Royal Physician's Visit magnificently recasts the dramatic era of Danish history when Johann Friedrich Struensee—court physician to mad young King Christian—stepped through an aperture in history and became the holder of absolute power in Denmark. His is a gripping tale of power, sex, love, and the life of the mind, and it is superbly rendered here by Sweden’s most acclaimed writer. A charismatic German doctor and brilliant intellectual, Struensee used his influence to introduce hundreds of reforms in Denmark in the 1760s and had a tender and erotic affair with Queen Caroline Mathilde, who was unsatisfied by her unstable, childlike husband. And yet, his ambitions ultimately led to tragedy. This novel, perfect for book clubs, is a compelling look into the intrigues of an Enlightenment court and the life of a singular man. “An enthralling fable of the temptations of power—and a surprisingly poignant love story,” —Time “Realized with a vividness and subtlety that place the book in the front ranks of contemporary literary fiction,” —The New York Times Book Review “The Swedish novelist’s method is to begin 10 years after Struensee’s fall, then retrace the “Struensee era,” as it came to be called, by probing the characters of four principal players—Christian, Guldberg, Struensee, and Queen Caroline Mathilde—each of whose perspectives, even the king’s, he makes intelligible and occasionally even sympathetic. A towering achievement,” —Booklist
Hippocrates Now
Hippocrates Now - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hippocrates Now write by Helen King. This book was released on 2019-11-14. Hippocrates Now available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is available as open access through the Knowledge Unlatched programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. We need to talk about Hippocrates. Current scholarship attributes none of the works of the 'Hippocratic corpus' to him, and the ancient biographical traditions of his life are not only late, but also written for their own promotional purposes. Yet Hippocrates features powerfully in our assumptions about ancient medicine, and our beliefs about what medicine – and the physician himself – should be. In both orthodox and alternative medicine, he continues to be a model to be emulated. This book will challenge widespread assumptions about Hippocrates (and, in the process, about the history of medicine in ancient Greece and beyond) and will also explore the creation of modern myths about the ancient world. Why do we continue to use Hippocrates, and how are new myths constructed around his name? How do news stories and the internet contribute to our picture of him? And what can this tell us about wider popular engagements with the classical world today, in memes, 'quotes' and online?
Imhotep
Imhotep - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imhotep write by Jamieson Boyd Hurry. This book was released on 1926. Imhotep available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The magician-physician Imhotep served King Zoser (who reigned 2630-2611 BC) and, unsusually for a mortal, had been elevated to full deity status as god of medicine by the Ptolemaic period. This is a reprint of Hurry's 1926 account of the historical figure, his deification and ancient Egyptian medicine.
The Anatomical Exercises
The Anatomical Exercises - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Anatomical Exercises write by William Harvey. This book was released on 1995-01-01. The Anatomical Exercises available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Classic of science reports how Harvey's theory of the circulation of the blood came into being. Reproduces the English translation made during Harvey's lifetime.
