TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mackowiak,Philip A.
TI  - Diagnosing giants: solving the medical mysteries of thirteen patients who changed the world 
SN  - 9780199359226
AV  - RC71 
U1  - 616.07/5 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Diagnosis
KW  - Celebrities
KW  - Diseases
KW  - Medicine
KW  - History
KW  - Famous Persons
KW  - Disease
KW  - History of Medicine
KW  - Diagnostics
KW  - Célébrités
KW  - Maladies
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Histoire
KW  - diagnosis
KW  - aat
KW  - illness
KW  - disease
KW  - history of medicine
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Laboratory Medicine
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Assessment & Diagnosis
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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."
N2  - 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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