Medical technology, inventing the instruments, Robert Mulcahy
Type
Label
Medical technology, inventing the instruments, Robert Mulcahy
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-136) and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Medical technology
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
34191436
Responsibility statement
Robert Mulcahy
Series statement
Innovators
Sub title
inventing the instruments
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
Table Of 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
Target audience
juvenile
resource.variantTitle
Inventing the instruments