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Olive oil injections aid in treating pneumonia

Treating pneumonia with olive oil sounds strange, but the idea showed signs of early scientific savvy.

BOOK REVIEW: The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 1: Introduction and Book I: Containing All Sorts of Trees, That Bear Edible Fruits, and Are Husbanded by People by Georgius Everhardus Rumphius; translated by E.M. Beekman

Review by Susan Milius.

Invasion of the Body: Revolutions in Surgery by Nicholas L. Tilney

The history of modern surgery is revealed through tales of surgical breakthroughs at a Boston teaching hospital that opened in 1913. Harvard Univ. Press, 2011, 358 p., $29.95

BOOK REVIEW: The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age by Nathan Wolfe

Review by Erika Engelhaupt.