Interpreters of nature
Subtitle: essays.
Series: Essay index reprint series
Publisher: Books for Libraries Press
Published: 1968
Place of publication: Freeport, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Medicine; Medicine -- Biography; Medicine -- History
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
"First published 1927."
Table of contents: title: The great Paduans; a century of medicine at Padua.; title: Thomas Sydenham, reformer of English medicine.; title: Hermann Boerhaave; the disciples of Boerhaave in Edinburgh.; title: John Hunter, the private practitioner as pioneer in preventive medicine.; title: John Keats: apothecary and poet.; title: Louis Pasteur: The character of Louis Pasteur.; title: William Osler: a physician of two continents.; title: Modern interpreters; fifty years' progress in public health.; title: Future interpreters; everyman in preventive medicine.