BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 ANCIENT MEDICINE AND ITS PRACTITIONERS -- PRIMITIVE MEDICINE AND FOLKLORE -- THE ANCIENT MIDDLE EAST AND EGYPT -- TRADITIONAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY IN ASIA -- INDIA -- CHINA -- JAPAN -- THE ROOTS OF WESTERN MEDICINE -- EARLY GREECE -- HIPPOCRATES -- HELLENISTIC AND ROMAN MEDICINE -- CHAPTER 2 MEDICINE IN THE MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE ERAS -- CHRISTIAN AND MUSLIM RESERVOIRS OF LEARNING -- TRANSLATORS AND SAINTS -- ARABIAN MEDICINE -- MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE EUROPE -- SALERNO AND THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS -- THE SPREAD OF NEW LEARNING -- THE ENLIGHTENMENT -- HARVEY AND THE EXPERIMENTAL METHOD -- THE FUTILE SEARCH FOR AN EASY SYSTEM -- MEDICINE IN THE 18TH CENTURY -- MAJOR FIGURES IN 18TH-CENTURY MEDICINE -- WILLIAM CULLEN -- EDWARD JENNER -- RENÉ-THÉOPHILE-HYACINTHE LAËNNEC -- BENJAMIN RUSH -- LAZZARO SPALLANZANI -- CHAPTER 3 THE RISE OF SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE IN THE 19TH CENTURY -- EMERGENCE OF PHYSIOLOGY -- VERIFICATION OF GERM THEORY -- DISCOVERIES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE AND ANESTHESIA -- ADVANCES AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY -- NOTABLE 19TH-CENTURY PHYSICIANS -- WILLIAM BEAUMONT -- CLAUDE BERNARD -- JULES BORDET -- GARDNER QUINCY COLTON -- CARLOS J. FINLAY -- FRIEDRICH GUSTAV JACOB HENLE -- SIR PATRICK MANSON -- WILLIAM THOMAS MORTON -- JOHANNES PETER MÜLLER -- FRANCESCO REDI -- SIR RONALD ROSS -- SIR JAMES YOUNG SIMPSON -- JOHN SNOW -- CHAPTER 4 IMMUNOLOGY AND THE 20TH-CENTURY FIGHT AGAINST INFECTIOUS DISEASE -- INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND CHEMOTHERAPY -- THE INTRODUCTION OF ANTIBIOTICS -- SULFONAMIDE DRUGS -- PENICILLIN -- ANTITUBERCULOUS DRUGS -- OTHER ANTIBIOTICS -- IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNIZATION -- ANTIBACTERIAL VACCINATION -- IMMUNIZATION AGAINST VIRAL DISEASES -- THE IMMUNE RESPONSE -- MAJOR 20TH-CENTURY FIGURES IN IMMUNOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE -- EMIL VON BEHRING.

SIR ERNST BORIS CHAIN -- LEONARD COLEBROOK -- PAUL EHRLICH -- SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING -- HOWARD WALTER FLOREY -- CAMILLE GUÉRIN -- KITASATO SHIBASABURO -- ALBERT BRUCE SABIN -- JONAS EDWARD SALK -- SELMAN WAKSMAN -- CHAPTER 5 PROGRESS IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF DISEASE IN THE 20TH CENTURY -- ENDOCRINOLOGY -- INSULIN -- CORTISONE -- SEX HORMONES -- NUTRITION AND VITAMINS -- TROPICAL MEDICINE -- NOTABLE FIGURES IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF 20TH-CENTURY MEDICINE -- SIR FREDERICK BANTING -- SIR WILLIAM MADDOCK BAYLISS -- CHARLES H. BEST -- ADOLF BUTENANDT -- CHRISTIAAN EIJKMAN -- PHILIP SHOWALTER HENCH -- SIR FREDERICK GOWLAND HOPKINS -- EDWARD CALVIN KENDALL -- J.J.R. MACLEOD -- GEORGE RICHARDS MINOT -- WILLIAM P. MURPHY -- GEORGE REDMAYNE MURRAY -- TADEUS REICHSTEIN -- LEOPOLD RUŽICKA -- ERNEST HENRY STARLING -- JOKICHI TAKAMINE -- GEORGE H. WHIPPLE -- CHAPTER 6 DEVELOPMENTS IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF CANCER -- ACHIEVING A BASIC UNDERSTANDING OF CANCER -- THE ROLE OF RETROVIRUSES -- SMOKING AND HEALTH -- MAJOR FIGURES IN THE HISTORY OF CANCER RESEARCH -- DAVID BALTIMORE -- J. MICHAEL BISHOP -- JOHANNES FIBIGER -- CHARLES B. HUGGINS -- SALVADOR LURIA -- SIR PERCIVALL POTT -- PEYTON ROUS -- ELIZABETH STERN -- E. DONNALL THOMAS -- HAROLD VARMUS -- RUDOLF VIRCHOW -- BERT VOGELSTEIN -- CHAPTER 7 SURGERY IN THE 20TH CENTURY AND BEYOND -- OBSTACLES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SURGERY -- CHANGES BEFORE WORLD WAR I -- ABDOMINAL SURGERY -- NEUROSURGERY -- RADIOLOGY -- SURGERY AND WORLD WAR I -- BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS -- THE PROBLEM OF SHOCK -- ANESTHESIA AND THORACIC SURGERY -- WORLD WAR II AND AFTER -- SUPPORT FROM OTHER TECHNOLOGIES -- HEART SURGERY -- ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION -- CONTEMPORARY SURGERY -- NOTABLE FIGURES IN SURGERY FROM THE 19TH CENTURY TO TODAY -- CHRISTIAAN BARNARD -- THEODOR BILLROTH -- DENTON A. COOLEY -- HARVEY WILLIAMS CUSHING -- MICHAEL DEBAKEY.

CLARENCE DENNIS -- CHARLES RICHARD DREW -- WILLIAM STEWART HALSTED -- SIR VICTOR HORSLEY -- KARL LANDSTEINER -- NORMAN E. SHUMWAY -- DANIEL HALE WILLIAMS -- CHAPTER 8 NURSING AND INFLUENTIAL NURSES IN HISTORY -- HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF NURSING -- FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE -- FAMILY TIES AND SPIRITUAL AWAKENING -- NURSING IN PEACE AND WAR -- HOMECOMING AND LEGACY -- MARY ANN BICKERDYKE -- FLORENCE A. BLANCHFIELD -- MARY BRECKINRIDGE -- EDITH CAVELL -- SUE SOPHIA DAUSER -- JANE A. DELANO -- SISTER MARY JOSEPH DEMPSEY -- CLARA MAASS -- MARY MAHONEY -- LUCY MINNIGERODE -- MARY ADELAIDE NUTTING -- MARY SEACOLE -- MABEL KEATON STAUPERS -- FLORENCE WALD -- LILLIAN D. WALD -- CHAPTER 9 PIONEERS OF MODERN MEDICINE -- SIR THOMAS CLIFFORD ALLBUTT -- ELIZABETH GARRETT ANDERSON -- VIRGINIA APGAR -- OSWALD AVERY -- SARA JOSEPHINE BAKER -- WILLIAM BATESON -- ALEXANDER GORDON BEARN -- ELIZABETH BLACKWELL -- BARUCH S. BLUMBERG -- EMELINE HORTON CLEVELAND -- MARY PUTNAM JACOBI -- MAYO FAMILY -- MENNINGER FAMILY -- ANTONIA NOVELLO -- SIR WILLIAM OSLER -- MARY JANE SAFFORD -- DAVID SATCHER -- MARIE STOPES -- HELEN BROOKE TAUSSIG -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.