The Medicine Book,

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL MEDICINE PREHISTORY TO 1600
	A shaman to combat disease and death
	A healer of one disease and no more
	The balance of the doshas is freedom from disease
	We rebuild what fortune has taken away
	First, do no harm
	A body in balance
	Nature itself is the best physician
	To diagnose, one must observe and reason
	Know the causes of sickness and health
	Learned, expert, ingenious, and able to adapt
	The vampire of medicine
	Wars have furthered the progress of the healing art
	The art of prescribing lies in nature
	Teach not from books but from dissections
THE SCIENTIFIC BODY 1600–1820
	The blood is driven into a round
	A disease known is half cured
	Hope of a good, speedy deliverance
	The harvest of diseases reaped by workers
	The peculiar circumstances of the patient
	To restore the sick to health as speedily as possible
	Great and unknown virtue in this fruit
	The bark of a tree is very efficacious
	Surgery has become a science
	The dangerously wounded must be tended first
	A peculiarity in my vision
	No longer feared, but understood
	Training the immune system
	Like cures like
	To hear the beating of the heart
CELLS AND MICROBES 1820 –1890
	Let healthy blood leap into the sick man
	Soothing, quieting, and delightful beyond measure
	Wash your hands
	Medicine needs men and women
	All cells come from cells
	They mistook the smoke for the fire
	A hospital should do the sick no harm
	Disturbances at the cellular level
	Make yourselves masters of anatomy
	One must replace the scarring tissue
	Life is at the mercy of these minute bodies
	A genetic misprint
	It is from particles that all the mischief arises
	The field of vital phenomena
	Defence against intruders
	A single mosquito bite is all it takes
VACCINES, SERUMS, AND ANTIBIOTICS 1890 –1945
	Solving the puzzle of cancer
	The darker shadow of the bones
	Viruses are alpha predators
	Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious
	It must be a chemical reflex
	The action currents of the heart
	Strings of flashing and travelling sparks
	A peculiar disease of the cerebral cortex
	Magic bullets
	Unknown substances essential for life
	An invisible, antagonistic microbe
	A weakened form of the germ
	To imitate the action of the pancreas
	No woman is free who does not own her body
	Marvellous mould that saves lives
	New windows into the brain
	Silent disease can be found early
GLOBAL HEALTH 1945 –1970
	We defend everyone’s right to health
	The artificial kidney can save a life
	Nature’s dramatic antidote
	The quietening effect
	A psychic penicillin
	Changing the way you think
	A new diagnostic dimension
	All the cells had 47 chromosomes
	Death becomes life
	A promising but unruly molecule
	A sensation for the patient
	The centre of our immune response
	The power to decide
	Asking for proof of safety
	A return to function
	Smoking kills
	Help to live until you die
GENES AND TECHNOLOGY 1970 ONWARDS
	Randomize till it hurts
	Seeing inside the body
	Antibodies on demand
	Nature could not, so we did
	Victory over smallpox
	Our fate lies in our genes
	This is everybody’s problem
	A revolution through the keyhole
	The first glimpse of our own instruction book
	Fixing a broken gene
	The power of light
	Hope for new therapies
	Smaller is better
	The barriers of space and distance have collapsed
	Public health enemy number one
	To reprogram a cell
	This is my new face
DIRECTORY
GLOSSARY
INDEX
QUOTE ATTRIBUTIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS