Belize, man in infirmary needs extrication, ix
Bellevue Hospital, New York City, 164, 165, 176
Bell Laboratories, 240–41
Benabid, Alim Louis, 319–20
Berengario, Giacomo, 28
Berlin Medical Society, 188
Bettercare health insurance proposal, 205–6
BHR (Birmingham Hip Resurfacing) implants, 218
Bicétre Hospital, Paris, 310–11
Billings, John Shaw, 164
Billroth, Theodor, 87, 108, 165, 166–68, 169, 174
biological implants, 229–30
BioMEMs (Micro-Electro-Mechanical systems), 331–32, 334, 336
Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) implants, 218
Black, Joseph, 147, 148
Blalock, Alfred, 235–36, 237
Bleeding Edge (film), 323, 327
Block, John, xiv–xv
blood circulation, Harvey’s theory of, 62–65
blood flow and Hippocrates’s four humors theory, xv–xvi
bloodletting, xi–xii, xvii, 29, 77
blood transfusion, 177
BMIs (brain machine interfaces), 230, 301, 320–21, 331
Bnoetus, Theophilus, 84–85
Bohlman, Harold, 194
Boston, Massachusetts, 151–52
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 155–56
Boston Public Garden Ether Monument, 159
Boyle, Robert, 48–49, 65
brain aneurysm, 300
brain machine interfaces (BMIs), 230, 301, 320–21, 331
breast augmentation implants, 304
breathing, xix
British National Health Service, 199
Broca, Pierre Paul, 310–11
Brown, Thomas, 10–11
bubble oxygenator for cardiopulmonary support, 238
Bureau of Medical Devices, 216
Bureau of Radiological Health, 215
Butazolidin “Bute,” 283
Butler Sanitarium, Providence, 173, 174–75
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