Medicine's 10 greatest discoveries / Meyer Friedman, and Gerald W. Friedland.

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [1998], ©1998.

xiii, 263 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographic references and index

Andreas Vesalius and modern human anatomy -- William Harvey and the circulation of blood -- Antony Leeuwenhock and bacteria -- Edward Jenner and vaccination -- Crawford Long and surgical anesthesia -- Wilhelm Roentgen and the x-ray beam -- Ross Harrison and tissue culture -- Nikolai Anichkov and cholesterol -- Alexander Fleming and antibiotics -- Maurice Wilkins and DNA -- Concluding thoughts.

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