Scientific papers; physiology, medicine, surgery, geology

Responsibility: with introductions, notes and illustrations.
Imprint: New York, P. F. Collier & son [c1910]
Physical description: 1p. l, 440p. 1 l. front., illus., plates (part fold.) ports. 23cm.
Series: Harvard classics v. 38

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Contributor: 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.; Paget, Stephen, 1855-1926.; Willis, Robert, 1799-1878.; Faulkner, Frank.; Robb, David Constable.; Ernst, Harold Clarence, 1856-1922.

Contents

The oath of Hippocrates.--The law of Hippocrates.--Journeys in diverse places, by A. Paré, tr. by S. Paget.--On the motion of the heart and blood in animals, by W. Harvey, tr. by R. Willis.--The three original publications on vaccination against smallpox, by E. Jenner.--The contagiousness of puerperal fever, by O. W. Holmes.--On the antiseptic principle of the practice of surgery, by Lord Lister.--The physiological theory of fermentation, by L. Pasteur, tr. by F. Faulkner and D. C. Robb (revised)--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.--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.

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