Little Masterpieces of Science - Health and Healing

The great medical breakthroughs, told as short stories. This anthology gathers celebrated nineteenth century writing on the conquest of pain, the germ theory, sanitation, and the healers who changed everything, selected for general readers. You will discover the drama of discovery in compact, vivid chapters, science communicated with the excitement of its first telling. A heritage sampler of medicine's greatest hits. Sample one masterpiece and see.