Written by René Laennec (1781-1826), a French physician and inventor of the stethoscope, A Treatise on the Diseases of the Chest and on Mediate Auscultation ...
Continue Reading →The French anatomist, pathologist, and physiologist Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1771-1802) was the founder of general anatomy and animal histology. Bichat’s experimental work had ...
Continue Reading →Originally published in 1529, the “Declamation on the Preeminence and Nobility of the Female Sex” argues that women are more than equal to men in ...
Continue Reading →Hippocrates of Kos, the Father of Western medicine, is credited with advancing the systematic study of clinical medicine, summing up the knowledge of previous schools ...
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