Mavericks, Miracles, and Medicine: the Pioneers Who Risked Their Lives to Bring Medicine Into the Modern Age by Fenster, Julie M - 2003

New York, New York, U. S. A.: Carroll & Graf Publishers. New in New dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. With colorful narrative detail this book brings to dramatic life the extraordinary stories behind 20 groundbreaking achievements in the field of medical science. It is a field populated by the bold, eccentric, and inventive likes of Werner Forssmann, a doctor who had so much confidence in his theory of catheters being inserted into human hearts for diagnostic purposes that he inserted one into his own; Wilhelm Roentgen, who in his basement developed the X-ray machine; and Jean-Baptiste Denis who performed the first recorded blood transfusion with lamb's blood. From Typhoid Mary to Dolly and everything in between, here are the healers and dreamers who marched resolutely ahead of their time - and altered the face of medicine for all time. There is a small remainder mark on the bottom. ; Remainder; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall .