From Anesthesia to X-Rays: Innovations and Discoveries That Changed Medicine Forever

Easy to read and to use, this A-to-Z mini-encyclopedia covers the most important medical innovations of the last 200 years.

• Features 50 interesting A-to-Z reference entries on medical innovations

• Covers biographies of important medical innovators, descriptions of the first use of an innovation, and descriptions of other innovations that were less successful

• Provides an introductory essay explaining how the list was chosen and discussing the importance of innovation in the medical field

• Includes a chronology of major milestones in medical innovation

• Utilizes a ready-reference format that makes finding information about particular innovations easy