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Scientific papers : physiology, medicine, surgery, geology.
LIBRA - Rare Q111 .S4 1910 Adams copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hippocrates, author.
- Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590, author.
- Harvey, William, 1578-1657, author.
- Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823, author.
- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894, author.
- Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912, author.
- Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895, author.
- Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875, author.
- Series:
- Harvard classics ; v. 38.
- The Harvard classics, ed. by C.W. Eliot [38]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science.
- Physiology.
- Medicine.
- Surgery.
- Geology.
- General Surgery.
- Medical Subjects:
- Geology.
- Medicine.
- Physiology.
- General Surgery.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- 440 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates (some folded), portraits ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : P.F. Collier & Son, ©1910.
- Contents:
- The oath of Hippocrates.
- The law of Hippocrates.
- Journeys in diverse places, by A. Paré, tr. by S. Paget.
- On the motion of the heart and blood in animals, by W. Harvey, tr. by R. Willis.
- The three original publications on vaccination against smallpox, by E. Jenner.
- The contagiousness of puerperal fever, by O.W. Holmes.
- On the antiseptic principle of the practice of surgery, by Lord Lister.
- The physiological theory of fermentation, by L. Pasteur, tr. by F. Faulkner and D.C. Robb (revised)
- The germ theory and its application to medicine and surgery (revised); On the extension of the germ theory to the etiology of certain common diseases (revised) by L. Pasteur, tr. by H.C. Ernst.
- Prejudices which have retarded the progress of geology; Uniformity in the series of past changes in the animate and inanimate world, by Sir C. Lyell.
- Notes:
- "Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books."
- "Designed, Printed, and Bound at The Collier Press, New York"--verso of title page.
- "Copyright, 1897 By G.P. Putnam's Sons ... Copyright 1861, 1862, 1883, 1889, 1890, 1891 by Oliver Wendell Holmes. Copyright, 1892 by Houghton, Mifflin & Company ... Copyright, 1910 By P. F. Collier & Son."--verso of title page.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Penn Libraries Rare copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Scientific papers; physiology, medicine, surgery, geology.
- OCLC:
- 830444
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