PART I : INTRODUCTORY. Synopsis -- The Hippocratic Oath -- The oath and prayer of Maimonides -- The history of medicine / George Sarton -- The emergence of modern medicine from ancient folkways / Walter C. Alvarez. PART 2 : ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL TIMES. Synopsis -- The medicine man / Logan Clendening -- Ancient remedies -- Dietary and sanitary laws ; Diagnosis of leprosy / from the Book of Leviticus -- The wisdom of Hippocrates -- On various medical subjects / Clarissimus Galen -- Epidemics and the fall of Rome / Hans Zinsser -- The plague / Giovanni Boccaccio -- The medical school of Salernum / John Ordronaux -- Code of health of the school of Salernum -- The sinister shepherd / Girolamo Fracastoro -- Medieval remedies. PART 3 : THE REBIRTH OF MEDICINE. Synopsis -- On authority and experiment / Paracelsus -- The place of Paracelsus in medicine / Victor Robinson -- Versalius and Harvey : the founding of modern anatomy and physiology / Michael Foster -- The only contemporary character sketch of William Harvey / John Aubrey -- The fresh-water soldier / Ambroise Paré -- Ambroise Paré does a delivery / Alan Frank Guttmacher -- Doctor Sangrado / Alain-René Le Sage -- An apothecary's shop / William Shakespeare -- Seventeenth and eighteenth century remedies -- Descriptions of disease / Thomas Sydenham -- Science and surgery -- John Hunter / Logan Clendening -- Experiments made to ascertain the progress and effects of the venereal poison / John Hunter -- Inoculation against smallpox / Mary Wortley Montagu -- An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae, known by the name of the cow-pox / Edward Jenner -- The history of the kine-pox / Benjamin Waterhouse -- The invention of the stethoscope / René Laënnec -- Bootlegging bodies / Alan F. Guttmacher. PART 4 : INTO MODERN TIMES. A. The Old World. Synopsis -- Very small living creatures / Anton van Leeuwenhoek -- On the mode of the communication of cholera / John Snow -- The cry and the covenant / Morton Thompson -- On the antiseptic principle of the practice of surgery / Joseph Lister -- Louis Pasteur and the conquest of rabies / René Vallery-Radot -- On experimental science ; On Claude Bernard and his work / Louis Pasteur -- The truth seekers / Claude Bernard -- The etiology of tuberculosis / Robert Koch -- Sairey Gamp / Charles Dickens -- Florence Nightengale / Cecil Woodham-Smith -- Medical education / Thomas Henry Huxley -- His first operation / A. Conan Doyle . -- And the new. Synopsis -- Medicine at sea in the days of sail / Karl Vogel -- A backwoods Galahad : Ephraim McDowell / James Thomas Flexner -- New World remedies -- Memorial to the legislature of Massachusetts / Dorothea Lynde Dix -- The death of pain / James Thomas Flexner -- The horse and buggy doctor / Arthur E. Hertzler -- The young practitioner / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- The surgical operations on President Cleveland in 1893 / W.W. Keen -- Peruna and the bracers / Samuel Hopkins Adams. PART 5 : THE TURN OF THE CENTURY -- AND BEYOND. Synopsis -- The doctor / Robert Louis Stevenson -- On becoming a doctor / Oliver Wendell Holmes ; J. Marion Sims ; Sigmund Freud ; Wilfred T. Grenfell ; Walter B. Cannon ; Havelock Ellis -- The art of medicine / Harvey Cushing -- The career of the investigator ; Gains from serendipity / Walter B. Cannon -- Laboratories / Hans Zinsser -- Chemistry in the service of medicine / Edwin E. Slosson -- The doctor and the physicist / George Russell Harrison -- On the new kind of rays / Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen -- The psychology of Sigmund Freud / A.A. Brill -- Malaria / Ronald Ross -- The ravages of yellow fever / Matthew Carey ; Benjamin Rush ; J.M. Keating ; Lena Warren ; Walter Reed and James Carroll -- The inside story of a great medical discovery / Aristides Agramonte -- Joseph Goldberger and pellagra / Robert P. Parsons -- Anemia / George Richards Minot -- The story of the glands of internal secretion / Walter Timme -- The Johns Hopkins Hospital / John Shaw Billings -- My professional colleagues / John Miller Turpin Finney -- From the writings of William Osler -- Medical practice / Hans Zinsser -- Leprosy in the Philippines / Victor Heiser -- On the edge of the primeval forest / Albert Schweitzer. PART 6 : CONTEMPORARY MEDICNE. Synopsis -- Poliomyelitis : a case history / Bentz Plagemann -- "Doc" Lipes commandeers a submarine officers' wardroom / George Walker -- A pig from Jersey / Berton Roueché -- Remedies still prescribed -- in primitive or backward communities -- Witchcraft in West Polk Street / Alice Hamilton -- At the twilight zone of life / Wendell M. Stanley -- Perspectives in cancer research / Cornelius P. Rhoads -- Microbes / René Dubos -- Chemotherapy / Alexander Fleming -- ACTH, cortisone, & co. / Leonard Engel -- Medical benefits from atomic energy / James Franck -- Sterilization / Abraham Myerson -- The new science of surgery / Frank G. Slaughter -- Psychiatry for everyday needs / William C. Menninger -- On being old too young / Edward J. Stieglitz -- The mystery of death / Alexis Carrel.