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Pathfinders in medicine / by Victor Robinson; with a letter from Ernst Haeckel and an introduction by Abraham Jacobi.
- Robinson, Victor, 1886-1947.
- Date
- 1912
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Credit: Pathfinders in medicine / by Victor Robinson; with a letter from Ernst Haeckel and an introduction by Abraham Jacobi.
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About this work
Publication/Creation
New York : Medical review of reviews, 1912.
Physical description
5-317 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents
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.
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- English
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