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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.)
THE DAWN OF MODERN
MEDICINE
AN ACCOUNT OF THE REVIVAL OF THE SCIENCE
AND ART OF MEDICINE WHICH TOOK PLACE
IN WESTERN EUROPE DURING THE LATTER
HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY AND THE FIRST PART
OF THE NINETEENTH
BY
ALBERT H. BUCK, B.A., M.D.
FORMERLY CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF DISEASES OF THE EAR, COLUMBIA
UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK: CONSULTING AURAL SURGEON,
NEW YORK EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, ETC.
NEW HAVEN: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
MDCCCCXX
Copyright, 1920, by
Yale University Press
THE WILLIAMS MEMORIAL PUBLICATION FUND
The present volume is the third work published by the Yale University Press on the Williams Memorial Publication Fund. This Foundation was established June 15, 1916, by a gift made to Yale University by Dr. George C. F. Williams, of Hartford, a member of the Class of 1878, Yale School of Medicine, where three generations of his family studied—his father, Dr. William Cook Williams, in the Class of 1850, and his grandfather, Dr. William Chauncey Williams, in the Class of 1822.