The oath of Hippocrates -- The law of Hippocrates --Journeys in diverse places / Ambroise Paré -- On the motion of the heart and blood in animals / William Harvey -- The three original publications on vaccination against smallpox / Edward Jenner -- The contagiousness of puerperal fever / O.W. Holmes -- On the antiseptic principle of the practice of surgery /Lord Lister -- The physiological theory of fermentation / Louis Pasteur -- The germ theory and its applications to medicine and surgery (revised) /Louis Pasteur -- On the extension of the germ theory to the etiology of certain common diseases (revised) /Louis Pasteur -- Prejudices which have retarded the progress of geology / Sir Charles Lyell -- Uniformity in the series of past changes in the animate and inanimate world / Sir Charles Lyell.