Front matter
Reading edition
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THE DAWN OF MODERN MEDICINE
FROM THE EARLY PART OF THE EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY TO ABOUT 1860
CONTINUATION OF THE ACCOUNT GIVEN IN THE WORK
ENTITLED “THE GROWTH OF MEDICINE”
PUBLISHED ON THE FOUNDATION
ESTABLISHED IN MEMORY OF
WILLIAM CHAUNCEY WILLIAMS
OF THE CLASS OF 1822, YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL
AND OF
WILLIAM COOK WILLIAMS
OF THE CLASS OF 1850, YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL
PORTRAIT OF ANTOINE LAURENT LAVOISIER The French chemist and biologist who contributed more than anyone else to our knowledge of the chemistry and physiology of oxygen. (Copied from the frontispiece of Volume I of Lavoisier’s “Works,” published by the French Government in 1864.)