Pioneers of Public Health: The Story of Some Benefactors of the Human Race
by Walker, M.E.M
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- Hardcover
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Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1930. xv, 270, frontis, 22 b/w plates. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. Some foxing to fore-edge and title page. Owner's names to endpaper. Vg.. Foreword by Sir Humphry Rolleston. Preface states 'These slight sketches of the lives and works of the eminent scientists who form the subjects of the essays contained in this book, were suggested to me by seeing their names written large on the walls of the new building of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as I walked down Gower Street one day in Agust 1928'. Includes chapters on: Thomas Sydenham; Sir John Pringle; James Lind; Johann Peter Frank; Edward Jenner; Lemuel Shattuck; Sir Edwin Chadwick; William Farr; Sir John Simon; Max von Pettenkofer; Edmund Alexander Parkes; Louis Pasteur; Lord Lister; Timothy Richards Lewis; Robert Koch; Sir Patrick Manson; Alphonse Laveran; Walter Reed; William Crawford; Hermann M. Biggs and Sir William Leishman..
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- Bookseller
- Pemberley Natural History Books (GB)
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- Title
- Pioneers of Public Health: The Story of Some Benefactors of the Human Race
- Author
- Walker, M.E.M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oliver and Boyd
- Place of Publication
- Edinburgh
- Date Published
- 1930
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Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology.
Established 1989.
Website: www.pemberleybooks.com Searchable stock database and secure ordering
We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London - easy to reach by train or car, and close to Heathrow Airport)
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