Famous contributors to medical knowledge and practice? U. S. students last week compared two lists, a U. S. selection recorded in the Journal of the American Medical Association and a British recorded in the Medical Press and Circular (English):
U.S.
*Pasteur
*Hippocrates
*Harvey
Osler
*Lister
Koch
Galen
*Laennec
British
*Hippocrates
*Harvey
Sydenham
Hunter
*Pasteur
Jenner
*Laennec
Simpson or
Morton
*Lister
Roentgen
Some British correspondents preferred to put Morgagni among the first five instead of Hunter...
