[填空题]
Does the publisher of Douglas Starr’s excellent Blood—An Epic
History of Medicine and Commerce actually expect to sell many copies Whoever
chose the title, certain to scare off the squeamish, and the subtitle, which
makes the effort sound like a dry, dense survey text, has really done this book
a disservice. In fact, the brave and curious will enjoy a brightly written,
intriguing, and disquieting book, with some important lessons for public
health.
66. ______
The book begins with a historical view on
centuries of lore about blood—in particular, the belief that blood carried the
evil humors of disease and required occasional draining. As recently as the
Revolutionary War, bloodletting was widely applied to treat fevers. The idea of
using one person’s blood to heal another is only about 75 years old—although
rogue scientists had experimented with transfusing animal blood at least as
early as the 1600s. The first transfusion experiments inv
[单项选择]Does the publisher of Douglas Starr’’s excellent Blood — An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce actually expect to sell many copies Whoever chose the title, certain to scare off the squeamish, and the subtitle, which makes the effort sound like a dry, dense survey text, has really done this book a disservice. In fact, the brave and curious will enjoy a brightly written, intriguing, and disquieting book, with some important lessons for public health.
66. ( )
The book begins with a historical view on centuries of lore about blood — in particular, the belief that blood carried the evil humors of disease and required occasional draining. As recently as the Revolutionary War, bloodletting was Widely applied to treat fevers. The idea of using one person’’s blood to heal another is only about 75 years old — although rogue scientists had experimented with transfusing animal blood at least as early as the 1600s. The first transfusion experiments involved stitching a donor’’s vein (i