lecture 1. Hippocrates and the origins of Western medicine
lecture 2. The paradox of Galen
lecture 3. Vesalius and the Renaissance of medicine
lecture 4. Harvey, discoverer of the circulation
lecture 5. Morgagni and the anatomy of disease
lecture 6. Hunter, the surgeon as scientist
lecture 7. Laennec and the invention of the stethoscope
lecture 8. Morton and the origins of anesthesia
lecture 9. Virchow and the cellular origins of disease
lecture 10. Lister and the germ theory
lecture 11. Halsted and the American medical education
lecture 12. Taussig and the development of cardiac surgery.
