An Illustrated History of Medical Exploration in Objects

The Illustrated History of Medicine takes readers on a 12,000-year journey by exploring fifty objects that open windows onto different aspects of medical history. This incredible assortment of medical artifacts show the progress of modern medicine, and the ways in which people view disease.

Fascinating for those in the medical field, or not, objects are profiled in detail, and listed chronologically. Inside you'll find:

-A Neolithic Trapanned Skull (c.10,000 bce) 
-Clay Tablets from the Library of Assurbanipal (7th century bce) 
-Avicenna’s Tomb in Hamadan, Iran (1037) 
-A Plague Doctor Mask (17th century) 
-John Snow’s Cholera Map (1854) 
-The Snellen Chart for Eye Tests (1862) 
-Alexander Flemming’s Petri Dish (1928) 
-A Red ribbon for AIDs awareness (1991).