Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- About the Author -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine -- Chapter 3 Avicenna, a Thousand Years Ahead of His Time -- Chapter 4 Girolamo Fracastoro and Contagion in Renaissance Medicine -- Chapter 5 Antony van Leeuwenhoek and the Birth of Microscopy -- Chapter 6 The Demise of the Humoral Theory of Medicine -- Chapter 7 Edward Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination -- Chapter 8 Ignaz Semmelweis and the Control of Puerperal Sepsis -- Chapter 9 Louis Pasteur and the Germ Theory of Disease -- Chapter 10 Robert Koch and the Rise of Bacteriology -- Chapter 11 Joseph Lister, the Man Who Made Surgery Safe -- Chapter 12 Paul Ehrlich and the Magic Bullet -- Chapter 13 Alexander Fleming and the Discovery of Penicillin -- Chapter 14 Lillian Wald and the Foundations of Modern Public Health -- Chapter 15 Conclusions -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.