Chapter II: Preface: v

CHAP.

I. LINACRE, CAIUS, AND THE FOUNDATION OF BRITISH
MEDICINE 1

II. WILLIAM HARVEY AND THE CIRCULATION OF THE
BLOOD 25

III. THOMAS SYDENHAM, THE BRITISH HIPPOCRATES 52

IV. THE MONROS, CULLEN, THE GREGORYS, JOHN BELL,
AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE EDINBURGH SCHOOL
OF MEDICINE 71

V. WILLIAM AND JOHN HUNTER AND THE APPLICATIONS
OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY TO SURGERY 119

VI. EDWARD JENNER AND VACCINATION 169

VII. SIR ASTLEY COOPER AND ABERNETHY: THE KNIFE
_versus_ REGIMEN 202

VIII. SIR CHARLES BELL AND THE FUNCTIONS OF THE
NERVOUS SYSTEM 242

IX. MARSHALL HALL AND THE DISCOVERY OF REFLEX
ACTION 264

X. SIR BENJAMIN BRODIE AND SIR WILLIAM LAWRENCE,
TWO GREAT PRACTICAL SURGEONS 286

EMINENT DOCTORS.