The totem of medicine: Hippocrates
The paradox of Pergamon: Galen
The reawaken: Andread Vesalius and the Renaissance of Medicine
The gentle surgeon: Ambrose Pare
"Nature herself must be our advisor": William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood
The new medicine: The anatomical concept of Giovanni Morgagni
"Why the leaves changed color in the autumn": Surgery, Science, and John Hunter
"Without diagnosis, there is no rational treatment": Rene Laennec, inventor of the stethoscope
The germ theory before germs: The enigma of Ignac Semmelweis
Surgery without pain: the origins of general anesthesia
The fundamental unit of life: Sick cells, microscopes, and Rudolf Virchow
:To tend the fleshly tabernacle of the immortal spirit: Joseph Lister's antiseptic surgery
Medical science comes to America: William Stewart Halsted of Johns Hopkins
A triumph of twentieth-century medicine: Helen Taussig and the Blue-Baby operation
New Hearts for old: the story of Transplantation.