| Description |
317 p. col. front., ports., facsim. 24 cm. |
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Letter from Ernst Haeckel -- Introduction by Abraham Jacobi -- Galen and Greek medicine -- Aretaeus, the forgotten physician -- Paracelsus, iconoclast of medicine -- Servetus, the medical martyr -- Vesalius, the anatomist -- Pare, the surgeon -- Scheele, the apothecary -- Cavendish, the chemist -- Hunter, the natural philosopher -- Jenner and vaccination -- Laennec and auscultation -- Semmelweis, the obstetrician -- Schleiden and Schwann -- Darwin, saint of science. |
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Physicians -- Biography
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Medicine -- History.
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