Scientific papers: physiology, medicine, surgery, geology, with introductions and notes.
Contributors: Hippocrates.; Pare , 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, 1855-1926.; Willis, Robert, 1799-1878.; Faulkner, Frank.; Robb, David Constable.; Ernst, Harold C. 1856-1922.
Series: Harvard classics -- v. 38.
Publisher: P. F. Collier
Published: 1910
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Science.; Physiology.; Medicine.; Surgery.
Table of contents: value: The oath of Hippocrates.; value: The law of Hippocrates.; value: Journeys in diverse places, by A. Pare , tr. by S. Paget.; value: On the motion of the heart and blood in animals, by W. Harvey, tr. by R. Willis.; value: The three original publications on vaccination against smallpox, by E. Jenner.; value: The contagiousness of puerperal fever, by O. W. Holmes.; value: On the antiseptic principle of the practice of surgery, by Lord Lister.; value: The physiological theory of fermentation, by L. Pasteur, tr. by F. Faulkner and D. C. Robb (revised); value: 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.; value: 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.