Diagnosing Giants: Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World
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Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time. Today medical trauma teams help similar victims survive-including Gabby Giffords, whose injury was strikingly like Lincoln's. In Diagnosing Giants, Dr. Philip A. Mackowiak examines the historical...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:019993777X
ISBN13:9780199937776
Release Date:October 2013
Publisher:OUP Us
Length:240 Pages
Weight:1.19 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"
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