Schemes and Consequences

The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint. Contents: Oath of Hippocrates; Law of Hippocrates; Journeys in Diverse Places by Ambroise Pare; On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals by William Harvey; The Three Original Publications on Vaccination Against Smallpox by Edward Jenner; The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever by Oliver Wendell Holmes; On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery by Lord Lister; The Physiological Theory of Fermentation; The Germ Theory and its Applications to Medicine and Surgery; On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases; by Louis Pasteur; Prejudices Which Have Retarded the Progress of Geology; Uniformity in the Series of Past Changes in the Animate and Inanimate World by Sir Charles Lyell.