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Pathfinders in Medicine / by Victor Robinson; with a letter from Ernst Haeckel and an introduction by Abraham Jacobi.

LIBRA R134 .R7
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LIBRA - Rare R134 .R7 1912
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Robinson, Victor, 1886-1947.
Contributor:
Haeckel, Ernst, 1834-1919.
Jacobi, A. (Abraham), 1830-1919, writer of introduction.
Becker, Joseph M., former owner.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Physicians--Biography.
Physicians.
Medicine--History--Biography.
Medicine.
History.
Genre:
Biographies.
Penn Provenance:
Becker, Joseph M. (former owner)
Physical Description:
2 unnumbered pages, 317 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 17 unnumbered leaves of plates. : illustrations (partly color), portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New York, Medical Review of Reviews, 1912.
Contents:
Letter from Ernst Haeckel
Introduction by Abraham Jacobi
Galen and Greek medicine
Aretæus, 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.
Notes:
Portraits have tissue guards.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Joseph M. Becker, M.D. in 2011.
Kislak Becker copy inscribed "With every good wish. Christmas 1912 J.B."
Kislak Becker copy has autograph of F. A. Cooksley.
OCLC:
3048803

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