The art of medicine : Andreas Vesalius, observation and anatomy
A peculiar light : Wilhelm Roentgen, the first x-ray
Picture of youth : Werner Forssmann, the cardiac catheter
Never say die : Ian Wilmut and Dolly, cloning a mammal
Perfect focus : Antony van Leeuwenhoek, the microscopic world
Too much trouble : Ignaz Semmelweis, hospital cleanliness
Public enemy : Robert Koch, the tuberculosis bacillus
Trailing death : George A. Soper and Mary Mallon, "Typhoid Mary"
Worldly wise : Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, smallpox inoculation
Tag ook : Paul Ehrlich, salvarsan for syphilis
Et al : Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz, a drug for TB
Battery operated : Arne and Else-Marie Larsson, the cardiac pacemaker
Organized brain : Thomas Willis, depicting cranial anatomy
Lost in thought : Franz Joseph Gall, phrenology
Ether frolic : Horace Wells, William T.G. Morton, and Charles Jackson, surgical anesthetic
Human feeling : David Ferrier and Frances Power Cobbe, brain localization and the animal-rights debate
Transfusion of murder : Jean-Baptiste Denis, experiments in blood transfusion
Master of the system : William Harvey, blood circulation
Long way to bypass : John H. Gibbon Jr., the heart-lung machine
A bit of life : Joseph E. Murray and John P. Merrill, kidney transplantation.
