Listerism vs., 112–13, 118, 121, 138, 166, 202
Pasteur finds yeast and bacteria in slimy beer, 110–11
puerperal fever believed to be in the air, 102–3, 104, 105
and Semmelweis, 101, 103–6, 105–6, 112
two main classes stain as purple or red, 125–26
See also Koch, Robert; Lister, Joseph
Gibbon, John, 236
Gibney, Virgil, 258, 260
glassmakers in Venice, 25–26
Gluck, Themistocles, 187–88, 195
Goetz, Thomas, 114
Golgi, Camillo, 312–13
Gompers, Samuel, 212
graft-versus-host disease, 229
Gram, Hans Christian, 125
Grass Stimulator, 239
grave robbing, 33, 68
Graves, Steven, 221
Greater Journey, The (McCullough), 255
Great Instauration, New Organon (Bacon), 39, 43–44
Greek gods, 144
Greenblatt, Stephen, xiv
Grenoble, France, 319
Gross, Robert, 235
guilds, 29
Guinter, Johann, 32–33
Gutenberg, Johannes, 16–17
gynecology, 304
H
Hahnemann, Samuel, 144
Halley, Edmund, 39–40
Halsted, William Stewart
abdominal surgery experiments, 174
biographical info, 164–65, 168, 176, 179–80
cocaine addiction, 171–73, 174, 176, 181
and gloves for nurse’s inflamed hands, 177
at Johns Hopkins, 175–78, 179–82
legacy of, 179–80
morphine addiction, 173, 174–75, 181
regional anesthesia with cocaine idea, 170, 171, 172
in sanitarium for cocaine addiction, 173, 174–75
Handbook of Systematic Human Anatomy (Henle), 113–14