| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
330 pages, 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations, portr. ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Hippocrates: the medicine of Greece -- Galen: the final form of medicine in Roman Empire -- Rhazes and Avicenna: the Aristotelianism and Galenism of the Moors and the Renaissance in Italy -- Paracelsus: the revolt against the Galenical tradition -- Vesalius and Pare: the revival of scientific investigation experiment -- Harvey: the discorery of the cirbulation of the blood -- Locke and Spencer: the medical philosophies from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century -- Sydenham and Boerhaave: the return to clinical medicine -- Mesmer and Cagliostro: Quacks and Charlatans from the seventeenth to the twentieth century -- Morgagni, Bichat and Virchow: the evolution of pathological Anatomy -- Auenbrugger and laennec: the development of differential diagnosis -- Jenner and Pasteur: the foundation of bacteriology -- Lister: the growth of surgery -- Gorgas: the story of public sanitation and preventive medicine -- Osler: the physician of the twentieth century. |
| Subject |
Médecine -- Histoire. |
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Médecins -- Biographies. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Goodwin, George M. (George Munro), 1887-
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