Doctors Who Saved Lives Author:Lynn and Gray Poole The miracles of medicine performed today are the result of centuries of achievements by men of imagination and daring. In this book are told the stories of sixteen men of medicine and their associates, whose ideas, research, dramatic discoveries and basic humanism have aided their fellow-men in saving numberless lives from the scourge of disease... more ». Their spirit is typified by such representatives of the sixteenth-century Age of Learning as Fracastoro, father of epidemeology, and Paracelsus, pioneer in the chemical treatment of diseases. It is carried on into the twentieth-century Age of Space by such scientists as Alexis Carrel, who paved the way for cardiovascular surgery and human organ transplants, and Fleming, Florey, and Chain, who discovered penicillin.« less