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THE pioneers whom Mrs. Walker has chosen to commemorate are the twenty-one eminent men whose names adorn the walls of the new building of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, a drawing of which forms the frontispiece. As Sir Humphry Rolleston points out in the foreword, twelve of the pioneers are British, four are from the United States, three from Central Europe, and two from France. Among the various departments of public health, epidemiology and State medicine are represented by Thomas Sydenham, Lemuel Shattuck, Sir Edwin Chadwick, William Farr, Sir John Simon, and Hermann Biggs; naval and military hygiene by James Lind, Sir John Pringle, and Edmund Alexander Parkes; preventive medicine by Johann Peter Frank, Edward Jenner, Max von Pettenkofer, Major Walter Reed, and General William Crawford Gorgas; bacteriology by Pasteur, Lister, and Koch; and protozoology by Surgeon - Major Timothy Richards, Lewis Alphonse Laveran, Sir Patrick Manson, and Sir William Leishman. A concise but sympathetic account of each pioneer is accompanied by his portrait and followed by a brief list of references.
Pioneers of Public Health: the Story of some Benefactors of the Human Race.
M. E. M.
Walker
By. Pp. xv + 270 + 23 plates. (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1930.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Pioneers of Public Health: the Story of some Benefactors of the Human Race . Nature 128, 6 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128006c0
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