Medicine's 10 greatest discoveries [electronic resource] /
Medicine's ten greatest discoveries
Meyer Friedman, and Gerald W. Friedland.
- Yale University Press, c1998.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 263 p.) : ill.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-246) and index.
Andreas Vesalius and Modern Human Anatomy -- William Harvey and the Circulation of Blood -- Antony Leeuwenhoek and Bacteria -- Edward Jenner and Vaccination -- Crawford Long and Surgical Anesthesia -- Wilhelm Roentgen and the X-ray Beam -- Ross Harrison and Tissue Culture -- Nikolai Anichkov and Cholesterol -- Alexander Fleming and Antibiotics -- Maurice Wilkins and DNA.