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Additional authors

1. Hippocrates.
2. Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590
3. Harvey, William, 1578-1657.
4. Jenner, Edward, 1749-1823.
5. Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894.
6. Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912.
7. Pasteur, Louis, 1822-1895.
8. Lyell, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875
9. Paget, Stephen, 1855-1926.
10. Willis, Robert, 1799-1878.
11. Faulkner, Frank.
12. Robb, D. Constable (David Constable)
13. Ernst, Harold C. (Harold Clarence), 1856-1922.

Description

1. 440 p., [7] leaves of plates (2 folded) : ill., ports.; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. Harvard classics ; [v.38]

Uniform title

1. Harvard classics ; [v.38].
2. Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Contagion.

Subject

1. Collected Work
2. Geology
3. Surgery
4. Medicine
5. Physiology
6. Science
7. General Surgery

Genre/Form

1. Collected Work

Contents

1. The oath of Hippocrates -- The law of Hippocrates -- Journeys in diverse places / by Ambroise Paré ; translated by Stephen Paget -- On the motion of the heart and blood in animals / by William Harvey ; translated by Robert Willis and revised by Alexander Bowie -- The three original publications on vaccination against smallpox / by Edward Jenner -- The contagiousness of puerperal fever / by Oliver Wendell Holmes -- On the antiseptic principle of the practice of surgery / by Joseph Lister -- The physiological theory of fermentation / by Louis Pasteur ; translated by F. Faulkner and D.C. Robb and revised -- The germ theory and its applications to medicine and surgery / by MM. Pasteur, Jourbert, and Chamberland ; translated by H.C. Ernst -- On the extension of the germ theory to the etiology of certain common diseases / by Louis Pasteur ; translated 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 Charles Lyell.

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