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  • The Death of Sherlock Holmes
    John Raffensperger / Richard Krevolin
    The previous diaries of Arthur Conan Doyle tell of the shadowy real life Sherlock Holmes, a medical school dropout. While in the laboratory of Dr. Joseph Bell, a brilliant Edinburgh surgeon, Holmes learned anatomy, surgery, observation and deduction. These skills and his ability to solve crimes led to his recruitment by the British secret service. In this the last of three diar...
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    18,61 €

  • Red Tide
    John Raffensperger MD / MD John Raffensperger
    Red Tide is the story of Peter, a shy, dreamy city boy, who learns the beauty of nature and copes with his mother’s illness while living with his grandfather on an island off the coast of Florida. His grandfather, a retired doctor, and Andrea, a girl with mischievous eyes, teach him about the animals that live on the island. He overcomes bullying by his new schoolmates and fear...
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    12,83 €

  • The Deadly Blue Diamond
    MD John Raffensperger
    The Deadly Blue Diamond, a fast-paced thriller, pits a young surgeon against vicious mobsters, crooked cops, and Chicago politicians. Little Louie, who killed his first man at age fifteen, organized a robbery to steal the Blue Diamond, a power symbol, that belonged to Al Capone. The heist goes bad. Rooky cops shoot Louie’s punch-drunk accomplice after he swallowed the diamond. ...
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    12,62 €

  • Missing in Action
    MD John Raffensperger
    Missing in Action is the sequel to Reconstruction: Heal or Kill. By 1885, the army had subdued the Plains Indians, but Geronimo’s Apaches were on the loose. They raided, looted, and murdered along the border between Arizona and Mexico and disappeared as if by magic. The army could not find the Apaches, let alone defeat them.Tom Slocum, a doctor’s apprentice in Reconstruction: H...
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    12,19 €

  • Jennifer the Flying Alligator
    John Raffensperger MD / MD John Raffensperger
    Jennifer, a young alligator, was smaller and different from her brothers and sisters. She did not eat frogs and small dogs, but liked spaghetti and tacos. One day a big cousin who normally lived at the deep end of the pond chased Jennifer and tried to bite her tail. Jennifer jumped into the air, flapped her front legs, and flew. She crashed into a tree and hurt her nose, but di...
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    12,94 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Plot To Assassinate The Tsar
    John Raffensperger / Richard Krevolin
    The recently discovered diaries of the young Arthur Conan Doyle contain the startling adventures of Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and the Edinburgh surgeon, Joseph Bell in Russia during 1881. At the time, Holmes, a medical school dropout, had become a skilled anatomist, diagnostician and surgeon. Even his most devoted admirers are unaware that Holmes was an undercover agent for Her Ma...
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    18,47 €

  • Reconstruction
    John Raffensperger MD / MD John Raffensperger
    Reconstruction: Heal or Kill takes place in a small Illinois town in 1871, portraying life in rural America. The novel reveals the prejudices against freed slaves during the post-Civil War era, when the KKK was terrorizing freed slaves.Tom, a teenage boy, had planned on a life fighting Indians, until a new doctor, trained in Edinburgh, arrives on a steamboat and convinces him t...
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    13,40 €

  • Sherlock Holmes at Lincoln’s Tomb
    John Raffensperger / Richard Krevolin
    The recently unearthed diaries of the young Arthur Conan Doyle provide evidence, if not proof of the that Doyle knew Sherlock Holmes as early as 1878, when Holmes was working in the laboratory of Dr. Joseph Bell at the University of Edinburgh. Holmes, a brilliant scientist and an astute medical diagnostician had either dropped out or had been expelled from a London medical scho...
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    18,56 €

  • A Surgeon’s Lessons, Learned and Lost
    MD John Raffensperger
    John Raffensperger, MD, describes how doctors in the mid-20th century learned medicine in the autopsy room, the laboratory, and at bedside, training to become well-rounded general physicians.Since then, many doctors have specialized during medical school, depending on X-rays and blood tests, rather than listening and 'laying on of hands.' Medicine became a de-personalized busin...
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    12,93 €

  • The Mystery of The Scarlet Homes Of Sherlock
    John Raffensperger / Richard Krevolin
    Finally, after a century of waiting and doubts over its very existence, the first of the three 'lost' diaries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been discovered and published. This first journal was written in 1878 by Conan Doyle when he was a nineteen-year-old student at the University of Edinburgh Medical School. It contains stories of high adventure beginning with Conan Doyle’s c...
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    18,15 €

  • Children’s Surgery
    John G. Raffensperger
    The history of medicine and surgery is well documented, but this volume offers the first specific exploration of the treatment of and attitudes towards children with injuries and birth defects through the ages. Popular thought holds that children in ancient times with birth defects faced a short life of abandonment or neglect. Examination of written records from ancient Egyp...
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    58,97 €

  • Two Scottish Tales of Medical Compassion
    Ian MacLaren / M. D. John Brown / M. D. John Raffensperger / MDJohn Brown / MDJohn Raffensperger
    Two Scottish Tales of Medical Compassion is a collection of two beloved short stories, 'Rab and his Friends' and 'A Doctor of the Old School,' and a brand new history of the Edinburgh School of Medicine, all of which emphasize the importance of compassion and humanity in the medical field. 'Rab and his Friends' is the story of a young apprentice who watches a grueling surgery a...
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    15,15 €