Kolletschka, Jakob, 104–5
Koufax, Sandy, 283, 284
Krebs, Edwin, 113
Kurzweil, Ray, 335–36
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Lambert, Karen, ix
Lambert, Mark, ix–x
Langenbec, Bernhard von, 165–66
Langston, William, 308–9
Latin important for medical training, 29
Latin Vulgate Bible, Gutenberg’s, 17
laudanum, 75, 144
Lavoisier, Antoine, 90–91
Leborgne, Louis Victor “Tan,” 310–11
leeches, xi–xii
Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van, 88–89, 105
Lenzer, Jeanne, 234
lesion case studies, 310
leukemia, discovery of, 94
Lewis, F. John, 236
Lillehei, Walton, 236–38, 239, 240
Lille University (French-Belgian border), Pasteur at, 110–11
Lind, James, 139
Lister, Agnes Syme, 108–9, 110
Lister, Joseph
belief that germs were in the air, 111
biographical info, 107–10
experimenting with antisepsis, 106–7, 111–12
first to propose a therapeutic intervention, 121
performing surgeries antiseptically, 112
studying Pasteur’s work, 111
Lister, Joseph Jackson, 107
Listerism, 112–13, 118, 121, 138, 166, 177, 202
Liston, Robert, 156–57
LMN (lower motor neuron), 314
Locke, John, 80
London, England
coffeehouses open, 51
during English Renaissance, 42–43
Long, Crawford, 150–51, 156, 158, 159
Los Angeles Rams, 282