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Author:

Mulcahy, Robert, 1971-

Title:

Medical technology : inventing the instruments / Robert Mulcahy.

Publisher:

Oliver Press,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

144 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Medical scientists--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Biologists--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Medical instruments and apparatus--Juvenile literature.
Medical instruments and apparatus--History.
Scientists.
Inventions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-136) and index.

Contents:

Medicine in the Seventeenth Century -- Santorio Santorio and the thermometer -- Antony van Leeuwenhoek and the microscope -- Rene T. H. Laennec and the stethoscope -- William T. G. Morton and anesthetics -- Wilhelm Roentgen and X rays -- Marie Curie and radiation therapy -- Willem Einthoven and the electrocardiograph.

Summary:

Profiles the life and work of seven scientists who made important medical inventions, including Santorio and the thermometer, Laënnec and the stethoscope, and Röntgen and the x-ray.

Series:

Innovators

ISBN:

9781881508342 (lib. bdg.)
188150834X (lib. bdg.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)34191436

LCCN:

96004939

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

LEPI975 -- Woodbury County Library (Moville)