Product Description: Could Lincoln have lived? After John Wilkes Booth fired a low-velocity .44 caliber bullet into the back of the president's skull, Lincoln did not perish immediately. Attending doctors cleaned and probed the wound, and actually improved his breathing for a time...read more

Product Description: Revised and updated, this edition serves as a reference on the basic mechanisms, physiological consequences, clinical characteristics and management of fever. The book provides analysis of thermoregulation, endogenous and exogenous pyrogens, the role of prostaglandins in fever, the immunological consequences of fever, the cardiovascular alterations that occur during fever, the role of fever in host defense against pathogenic micro-organisms, and the significance of fever pattern in clinical diagnosis...read more