Duluth Karpeles Manuscript Library

Exhibit: Milestones in Medicine

December 30, 2008 – April 30, 2009

William Harvey

Discoverer of Circulation of the Blood

Edward Jenner

discusses details from his

Discovery

of

Vaccination

William

Mayo

Founder of St. Mary's

Louis Pasteur

On Rabies

Ernst

Chain

tells of his part in the

Discovery

of

Penicillin

William J.

Mayo

Co-founder of the Mayo Clinic

Francis

Crick

Discoverer of the Function of DNA

Casmir Funk

describes his

Discovery

of

Vitamins

Federick Treves

The Elephant Man Original Manuscript

Emil Behring

Founder of Immunology as a Science

His notebook on the

Discovery

of Antitoxins for

Diphtheria

Florence Nightingale

Key Documents from the KML

Florence Nightingale Archive

Clara Barton

Announces the American Red Cross

Benjamin Franklin