Medical Emergencies Caused by Aquatic Animals A Zoological and Clini
The present book is intended as a reference guide for emergency and ambulatory care medicine, providing essential information on the most important problems and incidents caused by venomous, poisoning and traumatic marine and freshwater animals. Indeed, t
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Medical Emergencies Caused by Aquatic Animals
A Zoological and Clinical Guide
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Medical Emergencies Caused by Aquatic Animals
Vidal Haddad Jr.
Medical Emergencies Caused by Aquatic Animals A Zoological and Clinical Guide
Vidal Haddad Jr. Botucatu School of Medicine Universidade Estadual Paulista Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil
ISBN 978-3-319-20287-7 ISBN 978-3-319-20288-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-20288-4
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Dedicated to Adriana, Lorenzo, and Ariadne, gifts that the life has given me.
Foreword
Hubiera sido, pues, excelente ocasión para practicar la obra de caridad más propia de nuestro tiempo: no publicar libros superfluos. Ortega y Gasset
Over the past 22 years, the gods have given me the privilege of enjoying the friendship and companionship of two unique humans beings Rubens Brando, the “Rubão,” and Vidal Haddad Jr. Both, each in his own way, with the nobility of character and sovereignty purposes that the ancient Greeks defined well with the word Arete. Rubão and Vidal: scientists, aristocrats of the spirit. Rubens, with his Indians and his inordinate passion for snakes, left us long ago. Vidal, with his tenacity and dedication, now rewards us with this text. I participated in his project from the early stages, when about 20 years ago, he headed up to the Santa Casa de Ubatuba to ask the staff of that hospital for the necessary collaboration to develop clinical observations of patients injured by marine animals. The doctor Hector P. Froes, in the 1930s, in Bahia State, was the last Brazilian author to be internationally recognized for his observations on the venomous fish of Brazil. The track was redone. The book presented here, with magnificent iconographic mat
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