Karpeles Manuscript Library

Santa Barbara, California

Exhibit:  Milestones in Medicine

Sept 1, 2009 – Dec 31, 2009

 

William Harvey     

Discoverer of Circulation of the Blood

 

Edward Jenner  

discusses details from his

Discovery of   Vaccination

  

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