A History of Medicine in 50 Objects Conservation Even the letters in your

Even the letters in your name reduce to a numerical formula

joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless

They may be a little more efficient today

Will astronauts one day travel all the way to Mars

“If a girl looks like a model

A History of Medicine in 50 Objects Conservation Even the letters in yourA History of Medicine in 50 Objects takes readers on a 12,000 year journey to explore significant items that have advanced medical knowledge and practice. The fifty objects range from the everyday (a bottle of Aspirin) to singular medical advances (heart transplant pioneer Christian Bernard on the cover of TIME magazine). The objects are presented chronologically and described in two to four pages with illustrations, 150 beautiful archive images in