Purbach, Bodo, 210–11
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906), 213, 214
Q
quality, commitment to, 327–28
R
radical mastectomy, 177–79
radioactivity, invention of, 215
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 313–14, 316
Razi, al- “Rhazes,” 20
RBRVS (resource-based relative value scale) for Medicare, 208
R&C (Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled), New York, 258–59
Reagan, Ronald, 208
“Reconstruction of the Ulnar Collateral Ligament in Athletes” (Jobe, Stark, and Lombardo), 286
reconstruction surgery, 289
regional anesthesia, 170, 171, 172, 250–51
Reinhardt, Uwe, 207
Renaissance
effect of Lucretius poem, “On the Nature of Things,” xiv
and mirrors, 26
Muslims’s roles in moving toward, 19, 21
openness and discovery of truth, 43–45
printing press as breakthrough device, 15, 16–17, 22
repair surgery, 289
research and researchers
1950s and now compared, 9–10
double-blind study of streptomycin, 139
weekly meetings, 133
resource-based relative value scale (RBRVS) for Medicare, 208
restoration surgery, 289–90
rete mirabile, xix
robots and artificial intelligence (AI), 333
Rochester, Minnesota, 253, 254
Rockwood, Charles, 183
Rokitansky Carl von, 86–87, 89–90
Roman Catholic Church, 27, 45
Roman Empire
breaking apart, xix
history of, xvii
papyrus codex changed to parchment, 16
war with Francis I of France, 31