From the Book - 2nd Vintage Books ed.
The totem of medicine : Hippocrates
The paradox of Pergamon : Galen
The reawakening : Andreas Vesalius and the renaissance of medicine
The gentle surgeon : Ambroise Paré
"Nature herself must be our advisor" : William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood
The new medicine : the anatomical concept of Giovanni Morgagni
"Why the leaves changed color in the autumn" : surgery, science, and John Hunter
"Without diagnosis, there is no rational treatment" : René Laennec, inventor of the stethoscope
The germ theory before germs : the enigma of Ignac Semmelweis
No surgery without pain : the origins of general anesthesia
The fundamental unit of life : sick cells, microscopes, and Rudolf Virchow
"To tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit" : Joseph Lister's antiseptic surgery
Medical science comes to America : William Stewart Halsted of Johns Hopkins
A triumph of twentieth-century medicine : Helen Taussig and the blue-baby operation
New hearts for old : the story of transplantation.
