Doctors and Discoveries
Subtitle: Lives That Created Today's Medicine
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: May 10, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780618152766
First sentence: The incalculable debt of medicine to science, acquired over a little more than a century, is owed in the first instance to disciplines associated with biology.
Description: Traces the history of western medicine through the lives of its major contributors, profiling such well-known figures as Hippocrates and Louis Pasteur, as well as lesser-known scientists including Elle Metchnikoff and Samuel Hahnemann.