Table of Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine
Chapter 3 Avicenna, a Thousand Years Ahead of His Time
Chapter 4 Girolamo Fracastoro and Contagion in Renaissance Medicine
Chapter 5 Antony van Leeuwenhoek and the Birth of Microscopy
Chapter 6 The Demise of the Humoral Theory of Medicine
Chapter 7 Edward Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination
Chapter 8 Ignaz Semmelweis and the Control of Puerperal Sepsis
Chapter 9 Louis Pasteur and the Germ Theory of Medicine
Chapter 10 Robert Koch and the Rise of Bacteriology
Chapter 11 Joseph Lister, the Man Who Made Surgery Safe
Chapter 12 Paul Ehrlich and the Magic Bullet
Chapter 13 Alexander Fleming and the Discovery of Penicillin
Chapter 14 Lillian Wald and the Foundations of Modern Public Health
Chapter 15 Conclusions
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