Medicine's 10 greatest discoveries /
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New Haven, Conn :
Yale University Press,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.