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

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

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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.)

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