Doctors and Discoveries
Lives that Created Today's Medicine
by John G. Simmons
459 pages· 2002· ISBN 9780618152766
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Traces the history of western medicine through the lives of its major contributors, profiling such well-known figures as Hippocrates and Louis Pasteur, as well as lesser-known scientists including Elle Metchnikoff and Samuel Hahnemann.
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