Medical Discoveries: Who and When. A Dictionary Listing Thousands of Medical and Related Scientific Discoveries in Alphabetical Order, Giving in Each Case the Name of the Discoverer, His Profession, Nationality, and Floruit, and Date of the Discovery

摘要

The author of this book is a physician who has spent many years in tracking down the origin of medical discoveries and inventions. As he says in the introduction, "The securing of reliable dates for the discoveries, inventions, operations, methods, etc., involved its own brand of hardship." Anyone working in the historical and bibliographic field especially realizes the difficulties in this respect, and it is certain that Dr. Schmidt will welcome letters from readers pointing out discrepancies. In this way, corrections can be made that will be beneficial for a second edition and for the accuracy of historical facts, which we are all interested in establishing.