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LEADER: 01249cam 22002291 4500
001 61007781
003 DLC
005 20000307092449.0
008 750624s1961 nyua j 000 0 eng
010 $a 61007781
035 $a(OCoLC)1407728
040 $aDLC$cFO$dOCoLC$dCCoro$dDLC
050 00 $aR134$b.H79
082 $a610.9
100 1 $aHume, Ruth Fox,$d1922-
245 10 $aGreat men of medicine.$cIllustrated by Robert Frankenberg.
260 $aNew York,$bRandom House$c[1961]
300 $a192 p.$billus.$c22 cm.
490 0 $aWorld landmark books [W-49]
500 $a"Based in part on Great men of medicine (1947) andMilestones of medicine (1960) by Ruth Fox."
505 0 $aAndreas Vesalius, the founding of modern medicine -- Ambroise Paré, the key to modern surgery -- Edward Jenner, the conquest of smallpox -- René Théophile Laënnec, the science of diagnosis -- William Morton, the discoveryof Anesthesia -- Louis Pasteur, the battle against bacteria -- Joseph Lister, the introduction of antiseptic surgery -- Robert Koch, the search for disease germs --Frederick Banting, the control of diabetes -- Alexander Fleming, the discovery of penicillin -- Conclusion, medical research and the future.
650 0 $aMedicine$xJuvenile literature.