Doctors on Horseback: Pioneers of American Medicine,

by James Thomas Flexner

Book Overview

The man in the street would not, perhaps, recognize all the names of the brilliant scientists whose careers and personalities animate this book, but doctors know them. Morgan, who founded the first medical school in American and, fighting beside Washington, was ruined b the petty politics of the Revolution; McDowell, who, although on the fringe of the wilderness, dared the operation that prepared the way for all abdominal surgery; Rush, the equivocal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486221784
• ISBN13: 9780486221786
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.