Padua, Italy, 32, 42, 58–59, 84
Paget, Stephen, 235
papyrus, 15, 16
Paracelsus, 144
Paré, Ambroise, 30–31, 35
Parkinson’s disease, sudden-onset, 308–9
Parkinson’s disease and the brain, 317–19
path dependence, 14
pathologic anatomy, 95
pathologic physiology, 95
pathology
autopsy of a heart attack victim, 80–84
Cellular Pathology (Virchow), 96
Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford, 131–32
importance of, 174
training in, at University of Vienna, 168
patient allegories
AIDS patient with fungal colonies, 98–101
boy’s dog brings him back to life in SICU, 54–56
boy with compound fracture survives treatment, 106–7, 111–12
dislocated shoulders and seizures patient, 1–3
elderly woman with shoulder fracture, 3, 8–9
lumber mill worker with fingers sawed off, 12–14
necrotizing fasciitis in arm of 78-year-old man, 122–25
railroad worker has spike pass through his head, 309–10
replacing a shoulder replacement with bone nearly destroyed, 263–66
TB patient with a tumor below his jaw, 155
tumor growing on the back of the neck, 151
urethral stricture, 70–71
Péan, Jules-Emile, 188–89
pelvic organ prolapse (POP), 304
penicillin, 5, 124–25, 131, 134–35, 136
“Penicillin as a Chemotherapeutic Agent” (Florey and Chain), 135
Penicillium, 131, 133–36
Peoria USDA laboratory, 135–36
pergamum/parchment, 15–16
periodic table, 90–91
Perkin, William Henry, 91, 126, 311
Perry, Jacquelin, 286
pharmaceuticals
antibiotic discovery and production, 140
Butazolidin “Bute,” 283
cyclosporine, 301–2
digitalis, 143
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