Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain until Insulin

ISBN-13: 9789004172500 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 196 str.

Elizabeth Lane Furdell

Opis

Using unpublished and published sources, this book examines the history of diabetes in Britain from the perspective of healer and sufferer alike, focusing on medieval treatments, Renaissance-era diabetology, and the centuries-long debate among specialists over the site and cure of the disease.