Pathfinders in medicine

New York : Medical review of reviews, 1912.

5-317 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

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.--Paré, the surgeon.--Scheele, the apothecary.--Cavendish, the chemist.--Hunter, the natural philosopher.--Jenner and vaccination.--Laennec and auscultation.--Simpson and chloroform.--Semmelweis, the obstetrician.--Schleiden and Schwann.--Darwin, saint of science.