Description Chapter 1) Amazing and Strange Cures From Long Ago Disease Is a Punishment from the Gods - Disease and the Gods Shamans Were the Doctors of Babylonia - Shamanic Healing The Father of Western Medicine - Hippocrates The Doctor Who Dominated Western Medical History the Longest - Galen Did They Really Perform Brain Surgery in Prehistoric Times? - Prehistoric Brain Surgery Can Bloodletting Really Cure Any Disease? - Bloodletting The Famous Chinese Doctor Who First Invented Anesthesia - Hua Tuo The Magical Herbs Said to Be Used by Witches - Herbal Medicine The Arabian Doctor Who Published the First Medical Encyclopedia - Ibn Sina The Oldest Medical Text in the East - The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon Stealing Corpses to Begin the Study of Anatomy - Andreas Vesalius The Secret of the Sweat Lodge - Native American Medicine Chapter 2) Medicine Slowly Begins to Flourish The Plague That Changed the Course of Medieval History - The Black Death Patients Unfairly Treated as Criminals - Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Why Did 16th-Century Sailors Suffer from Scurvy? - Vitamins The Physician Who Pioneered Drug Therapy - Paracelsus Discovering New Surgical Techniques and Treatments - Ambroise Paré The Book That Set the Standard for East Asian Medicine - Donguibogam Joseon's Finest Acupuncturist - Heo Im The Doctor Who Developed Homeopathy While Working as a Translator - Samuel Hahnemann The British Doctor Who Systematically Classified Diseases - Thomas Sydenham Blood Circulates Throughout the Body! - William Harvey The Lens Maker Who Discovered Living Bacteria - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Why You Don't Roast Even in a Scorching Hot Room - George Fordyce The Substance That Makes Painless Surgery Possible - Anesthesia Unlocking the Secrets of Nerves and Muscles Through Frog Dissection - Albrecht von Haller Defeating Smallpox, Humanity's Greatest Enemy - Jenner's Vaccination Diagnosing Illness by Tapping the Body - Auenbrugger's Percussion Method Can Hypnosis Really Cure Disease? - Hypnotherapy Treating Internal Illness Through Surgery - Ephraim McDowell Diagnosing Illness by Sounds from Inside the Body - The Stethoscope The Man with a Hole in His Stomach - The Principles of Digestion Washing Your Hands Can Prevent Disease - Ignaz Semmelweis Should Animals Be Sacrificed for the Sake of Humans? - Animal Testing Uncovering the Relationship Between Microbes and Disease - Pasteur and Bacteriology Preventing Infections in the Operating Room - Lister's Antiseptic Method The Brave Young Man Who Injected Himself with Germs - Daniel Carrión Learning to Accurately Measure Human Body Temperature - The Invention of the Thermometer The First Synthetic Medicine, Made from Willow Bark - Aspirin Is Tuberculosis Really a Sign of Genius? - Tuberculosis The Terrifying Epidemic Caused by Contaminated Water - Cholera The Godmother of Nursing Who Founded a Nursing School - Florence Nightingale For Patients Who Cannot Take Medicine by Mouth - The Invention of the Syringe The Laws of Heredity Discovered Through Pea Plants - Gregor Mendel A Very Common Childhood Condition - Tic Disorders Curing Illness Through Dreams - Sigmund Freud The Phagocytes That Devour Bacteria - Élie Metchnikoff The Korean Medicine Doctor Who Discovered the Principles of Health - Lee Je-ma and Sasang Constitutional Medicine Chapter 3) The Astonishing Advances of Modern Medicine The Rays That Let Us See Inside Bones - X-rays Can Radiation Really Cure Cancer? - Radiation Therapy The Doctor Who Won a Nobel Prize for Flawed Cancer Research - Johannes Fibiger The Only Way to Compensate for Hearing Loss - Hearing Aids The Cause of the Spanish Flu That Killed Fifty Million People - Avian Influenza Giving Wounded Soldiers New Faces - Plastic Surgery The Doctor Who Threaded a Catheter Into His Own Heart - Werner Forssmann The Discovery of the Antibiotic That Fights Bacterial Infection - Penicillin The Research That Made Blood Transfusion Possible - Blood Types Curing Illness with a Fake Medicine - The Placebo Effect Opening the Way to Treating Diabetes - The Discovery of Insulin Can We Really See Deep Inside the Brain? - MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) The Device That Reveals the Inside of the Body - The Endoscope A Way to Gain a New Lease on Life - Organ Transplant Surgery India's 5,000-Year-Old Traditional Medicine - Ayurveda Giving Hope to Couples Struggling with Infertility - Test-Tube Babies Caught Because of Sexual Orientation? - AIDS Uncovering the Cause of Stomach Ulcers - Helicobacter Pylori Research That Reveals the Secrets of Human Genes - The Genome Project Can Robot Doctors Really Perform Surgery? - Robotic Surgery Hope for Incurable Diseases, or Research That Crosses Ethical Lines? - Stem Cell Research Chapter 4) Medical Stories Close to Our Everyday Lives Diseases Caused by Environmental Pollution -