Scientific papers; physiology, medicine, surgery, geology
By: with introductions, notes and illustrations
Contributors: Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590; Harvey, William, 1578-1657; Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894; Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912; Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895; Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875; Paget, Stephen, 1865-; Willis, Robert, 1790-1878; Faulkner, Frank; Robb, D. Constable (David Constable); Ernst, Harold Clarence, 1856-1922
Series: The Harvard classics, ed. by C.W. Eliot [38]; Harvard classics -- v. 38.
Publisher: P.F. Collier & son
Published: 1910
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
Subjects: Medicine; Science; Surgery; Physiology; Geology
Notes: Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: The oath of Hippocrates.; title: The law of Hippocrates.; title: Journeys in diverse places, by A. Paré, tr. by S. Paget.; title: On the motion of the heart and blood in animals, by W. Harvey, tr. by R. Willis.; title: The three original publications on vaccination against smallpox, by E. Jenner.; title: The contagiousness of puerperal fever, by O. W. Holmes.; title: On the antiseptic principle of the practice of surgery, by Lord Lister.; title: The physiological theory of fermentation, by L. Pasteur, tr. by F. Faulkner and D. C. Robb (revised); title: 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.; title: 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.