# The Youngest Science

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- Book: [The Youngest Science](https://www.bookquiver.com/lewis-thomas/the-youngest-science) ([The Youngest Science.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lewis-thomas/the-youngest-science.md))
- Authors: [Lewis Thomas](https://www.bookquiver.com/lewis-thomas)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4024-327-7
- Pages: 272
- Published: 1995-05-01
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From the 1920s when he watched his father, a general practitioner who made housecalls and wrote his prescriptions in Latin, to his days in medical school and beyond, Lewis Thomas saw medicine evolve from...