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"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has." — attributed to Hippocrates of Kos (c. 460 — c. 370 BCE). Key sections include: A History of Medicine; Hippocrates and the Birth of Clinical Medicine; Ibn Sina and the Canon; Vesalius cuts the body open; Harvey traces the loop; Jenner, the milkmaid, and cowpox; Morton, ether, and painless surgery; Pasteur, Lister, and the invisible enemy; Fleming's accident, Florey's translation; Salk, Sabin, Hilleman.
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