Diagnosing Giants: Solving the Medical Mysteries of Thirteen Patients Who Changed the World

by Philip A Mackowiak and Philip A. Mackowiak

Book Overview

Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time. Today medical trauma teams help similar victims survive-including Gabby Giffords, whose injury was strikingly like Lincoln's. In Diagnosing Giants, Dr. Philip A. Mackowiak examines the historical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019993777X
• ISBN13: 9780199937776
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"