Great men of medicine.
By: Illustrated by Robert Frankenberg.
Series: World landmark books [W-49]
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Medicine -- Juvenile literature.
Notes: "Based in part on Great men of medicine (1947) andMilestones of medicine (1960) by Ruth Fox."
Table of contents: title: Andreas Vesalius, the founding of modern medicine; title: Ambroise Paré, the key to modern surgery; title: Edward Jenner, the conquest of smallpox; title: René Théophile Laënnec, the science of diagnosis; pagenum: 4
title: William Morton, the discoveryof Anesthesia; title: Louis Pasteur, the battle against bacteria; title: Joseph Lister, the introduction of antiseptic surgery; title: Robert Koch, the search for disease germs; title: Frederick Banting, the control of diabetes; title: Alexander Fleming, the discovery of penicillin; title: Conclusion, medical research and the future.