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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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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robinson, Victor, 1886-1947.
- 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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