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An Innovative Physician and Scientist in Britain and British India: The Life and Times of Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, 1808-1889
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Through an examination of the life and remarkable achievements of Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, this book reveals a great deal about both medical and scientific innovation in the nineteenth century.
It traces O'Shaughnessy's career. At the age of twentythree in 1831 he identified the physiological cause of death from cholera and recommended intravenous saline as the cure in the face of the contemporary medical belief in bloodletting. In 1833 as an Assistant Surgeon of the East India Co...
It traces O'Shaughnessy's career. At the age of twentythree in 1831 he identified the physiological cause of death from cholera and recommended intravenous saline as the cure in the face of the contemporary medical belief in bloodletting. In 1833 as an Assistant Surgeon of the East India Co...
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