List of Illustrations vii
Foreword xi
Preface xiii
Special Note xv
Acknowledgments xvii
About the Author xix
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
Chapter 2 Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine 11
Chapter 3 Avicenna, a Thousand Years Ahead of His Time 29
Chapter 4 Girolamo Fracastoro and Contagion in Renaissance Medicine 41
Chapter 5 Antony van Leeuwenhoek and the Birth of Microscopy 57
Chapter 6 The Demise of the Humoral Theory of Medicine 71
Chapter 7 Edward Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination 85
Chapter 8 Ignaz Semmelweis and the Control of Puerperal Sepsis 105
Chapter 9 Louis Pasteur and the Germ Theory of Disease 127
Chapter 10 Robert Koch and the Rise of Bacteriology 153
Chapter 11 Joseph Lister, the Man Who Made Surgery Safe 181
Chapter 12 Paul Ehrlich and the Magic Bullet 205
Chapter 13 Lillian Wald and the Foundations of Modern Public Health 229
Chapter 14 Alexander Fleming and the Discovery of Penicillin 243
Chapter 15 Françoise Barré- Sinoussi and the Discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus 273
Chapter 16 Barry Marshall and Helicobacter pylori in Peptic Ulcer Disease 295
Chapter 17 Anthony Fauci: America’s Top Infectious Disease Doctor 315
Chapter 18 Conclusions 343
Index 351
