Scientific papers : physiology, medicine, surgery, geology
By: with introductions and notes
Contributors: Hippocrates; 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
Series: Harvard classics -- v. 38; Harvard classics -- v. 38
Publisher: Collier
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Science; Physiology; Medicine; Surgery; Geology
Notes: "The five-foot shelf of books."
Table of contents: value: Hippocrates.  The oath.  The law.; value: Paré, A.  Journeys in diverse places.; value: Harvey, W.  On the motion of the heart and blood in animals.; value: Jenner, E.  The three original publications on vaccination against small pox.; value: Holmes, O. W.  The contagiousness of puerperal fever.; value: Lister, J. L.  On the antiseptic principle of the practice of surgery.; value: Pasteur, L.  The physiological theory of fermentation (rev.).  The germ theory and its application to medicine and surgery (rev.).  On the extension of the germ theory of the etiology of certain common diseases (rev.).; value: Lyell, C.  Prejudices which have retarded the progress of geology.  Uniformity in the series of past changes in the animate and inanimate world