Diagnosing giants : solving the medical mysteries of thirteen patients who changed the world / Philip A. Mackowiak.

By:

Mackowiak, Philip A

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780199359226
0199359229

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Diagnosing giants.DDC classification:

616.07/5 23

LOC classification:

RC71

NLM classification:

WZ 313

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Contents:

Mummy's curse -- A last repast -- Little boots -- Noble enemy -- "Interred at the least possible expense" -- El sordo -- A medical labyrinth -- Old Jack -- Mortal wound -- Voyage to invalidism -- Vessels of stone -- Fatal zest for living -- "Too busy to be sick."

Summary: 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 record in detail, reconstructing Lincoln's last hours moment by moment to calculate the odds. That leads him to more questions: What if he had.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 record in detail, reconstructing Lincoln's last hours moment by moment to calculate the odds. That leads him to more questions: What if he had.

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