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Author Regal, Wolfgang, 1948-

Title Vienna : a doctor's guide : 15 walking tours through Vienna's medical history / Wolfgang Regal, Michael Nanut
Published Wien ; New York : Springer, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 189 pages) : color illustrations
Contents From the old university to Stephansplatz -- From Stephansplatz through the inner city -- Around the Ring -- Through the Old General Hospital -- The New General Hospital and the "New Clinics" -- The White City and Lemoniberg -- Billroth House, Society of Physicians 9th District, 8 Frankgasse -- Der Wiener Zentralfriedhof /Vienna Central Cemetery 11th District, 234 Simmeringer Hauptstrasse Open throughout the year -- Pharmacy in bloom. Botanical Gardens of the University of Vienna -- Art Collections of the Belvedere -- Schönbrunn -- Monument to a dream -- The muscle man and the wax Venus -- No. 19 Berggasse A visit to the archaeologist of the soul. Where the most famous couch in the world does not -- unfortunately -- stand -- The Narrenturm -- unique in both medical and architectural terms -- Museum Tour
Summary "The streets of Vienna are paved with history of medicine," the famous Viennese writer and journalist Karl Kraus could have said. In fact, an attentive visitor cana (TM)t move through the city without being reminded by all the street names, historical buildings, monuments or memorial stones that Vienna has been a capital of medicine where students and doctors from all over the world came to learn. This city guide is meant for all the visitors of this fascinating city, who are interested in the history of medicine. 15 walks through the city show the reader the traces of the old medica
Notes "Translation into English, Roderick O'Donovan"--Title page verso
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Subject Medicine -- Austria -- Vienna -- History
Medicine -- History.
Museums.
History of Medicine
Museums
history of medicine.
museums (institutions)
TRAVEL.
History of Medicine -- Austria.
Museums -- Austria.
Medicine -- Austria -- Vienna -- History.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Museums
Medicine
SUBJECT Vienna (Austria) -- Guidebooks
Austria
Subject Vienna (Austria)
Austria -- Vienna
Genre/Form travel guidebooks.
Guidebooks
History
Guidebooks.
Guides touristiques.
Form Electronic book
Author Nanut, Michael, 1960-
ISBN 9783211489499
3211489495
3211489525
9783211489529
1281138177
9781281138170
9786611138172
661113817X
Other Titles Medizin im historischen Wien. English