What this chamber argues
- Medicine is biology under urgency: intervention, risk, and evidence.
- Its history tracks shifts from theory to experiment to public health.
Primary works in this chamber (11)
- Galen — On the Natural Faculties (2nd century) — Book
- Hippocrates — The Complete Works (Corpus Hippocraticum) (classic texts) — Book
- Joseph Baron Lister — The Collected Papers (1909) — Book
- Louis Pasteur — On Germ Theory and Microbiology (early papers) (19th century) — Paper
- Florence Nightingale — Notes on Matters Affecting Health (1858) — Book
- Andreas Vesalius — De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543) — Book
- William Harvey — On the Motion of the Heart and Blood (1628) — Book
- Edward Jenner — An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae (1798) — Book
- John Snow — On the Mode of Communication of Cholera (1855) — Book
- Joseph Lister — On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery (1867) — Book
- Robert Koch — Die Aetiologie der Tuberculose (The Aetiology of Tuberculosis) (1882) — Book