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On the evening of April 7, 1864, Louis Pasteur stood before a packed audience at the Sorbonne in Paris and held up a simple glass...
For nearly two decades, Cuban physician Dr. Carlos Finlay stood before medical conferences insisting that mosquitoes carried yellow fever. The scientific establishment dismissed him. Colleagues...
The Hebrew verb *rapah* encompasses the complete restoration of a person's circumstances—the removal of distress, the return of health, and the establishment of safety and prosperity.
For decades, yellow fever ravaged Havana, killing thousands of soldiers and civilians. Physicians fumigated buildings, burned the bedding of the dead, and scrubbed wards with...
On December 10, 1945, three very different scientists stood together in Stockholm's Concert Hall to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Alexander Fleming,...
Maclaren observes that these two apostles, 'principal members of the quartet which stood first among the Apostles,' needed each other precisely because they were unlike.
On December 10, 1945, three scientists stood together in Stockholm's Concert Hall to receive the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Each had done what...
In November 1900, at a small experimental station outside Havana, Cuba, Private John Kissinger stood before Major Walter Reed and spoke words that stunned the...