Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Medicine in Ancient Greece -- Classic Medicine After Hippocrates -- The Alexandrian School -- Islamic Medicine -- Rhazes -- Avicenna -- The Revival of Western Medicine -- Infectious Diseases -- A New Anatomy -- Harvey and the Blood Circulation -- Alchemy and the Dawn of Chemistry -- The Gold-Makers -- Iatrochemistry - A Chemical Explanation -- The Man on the Balance -- Medicine and Chemistry in the Scienti.c Revolution -- Speculative Medicine - The System Builders -- The All-Pervading Ether -- A Troublesome Recluse -- Magnus Boerhaavius -- Corpuscles and Nitrous Air -- A Great Experimentalist -- The Mouse and the Candle -- An Enigmatic Theory -- Metallurgy and Spas -- The Chemistry of Air -- Fixed Air -- Dephlogisticated Air -- A True Chemist -- Combustion and Respiration -- A Golden Age of Chemistry -- Proportions in Chemistry -- A Pupil of Kant -- An Apothecary and Analyst -- Atoms and Molecules -- The Ingenious Quaker -- An Astonishing Career -- Atomic Weights and Symbols -- An Unruly Schoolboy -- A Leading Chemist -- A Chemical Language -- A Man of the World -- Ferment or Vital Force -- Vitalism and Natural Philosophy -- Natural Philosophy -- Animal Chemistry -- Proteins and Amino Acids -- The Meaning of Ferment -- The Advent of Microorganisms -- A Long and Bitter Con.ict -- The Chemical View -- The Lock and Key -- A Fortuitous Observation -- The Man from Upper Bavaria -- The Fermenting Extract -- The Nobel Prize -- Idealism and Dynamite -- A Momentous Will -- Creating the Nobel Foundation -- The Early Chemical Nobel Prizes -- The First Biochemical Laureate -- Serendipity in Research -- Bibliography -- Index.