I had posted the cover of the reference manual here, but it also came with a loose cover within the protective case:
Inside, we find that the Medical Advisor for this manual is none other than Leonard McCoy, M.D. That automatically makes this the best book in the entire world. It makes me glad that I found it before my friend did, who was right beside me looking on the same dusty shelf.
Below are some pages with the history of medicine, not limited to Earth. It is very interesting to see the different planets' timelines - how advanced Vulcan was, for instance, when Earth was still in the middle ages. Some of the highlights (in Earth years - click images to enlarge):
4200 BC - Great Plague on Vulcan, thousands die of the skag maug.
2750 BC - Kohl, Klingon god - patron of medicine.
1900 BC - Sikar, founder of the Vulcan School of Medicine.
Around 480 AD - Kassaba fever destroys entire populations of Rigel IV
Around 1000 AD - Zora experiments with body chemistry of tribes on Tiburon
1348-1350 AD - "Black Death", bubonic plague kills one-third of Europe.
Around 1530 AD - T'Laan of Vulcan discovers an artificial blood plasma. (It wasn't even until 1628 that William Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood on Earth)
According to this timeline, Louis Pasteur developed "pasteurizer and rabies vaccine" in around 1820. He was only born in 1822, and the first pasteurization tests took place in 1962. He started working on a rabies vaccination in the 1880s...
Around 1960 AD - Birth of Stavos Keniculus, first cloned human. (Also spelled Stavos Keniclius. Dr McCoy had mentioned in TAS that the scientist would be around 250 years old, which means he would have been born in around 2019, as the episode took place in 2268.)
1992 AD - Eugenic "supermen" revealed to public. (Eugenics wars begin)
Around 2000 AD - "Green Death", Vegan choriomeningitis ravages Vega IX.
2002 AD - Nomad Probe launched to search for extraterrestrial life.
2005 AD - Cygnian Plague Vaccine developed by Zilzu of Tellar.
Around 2020 AD - Cancer-inhibiting plant compound discovered on Ganymede.
Around 2015 AD - Life on Lavinius V is destroyed by the flying parasites. (Other sources say 2060 and 2067)
2042 AD - Ka'hat plague spreads throughout the Klingonii worlds.
2046 AD - Sessek of Vulcan studies alien physiologies.
Around 2175 AD - Radioactive pollutants on scalos cause drastic mutation.
Around 2190 AD - Life on Theta Cygni is destroyed by the flying parasites. (Theta Cygni XII)
Around 2550 AD - Life on Ingraham B is destroyed by the flying parasites.
2267 AD - Silicon-base life discovered on Janus VI. (Horta!)
They should teach these things in school - if a Canadian can get a Master's degree in the Beatles, then I should be able to get one in Star Trek.
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