6 posters · c. 400 BC to 1929
Biology & medicine
Founding texts of biology and medicine: the Hippocratic Oath, Linnaeus, Jenner’s vaccine, Darwin and Wallace, Mendel’s peas and Fleming’s penicillin.
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Biology & medicine
The Hippocratic Oath
Hippocrates, c. 400 BC
The physician’s oath of the Hippocratic Collection, in the ancient Greek text edited by Émile Littré in 1844.
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Biology & medicine
Caroli Linnæi Regnum Animale
Carl Linnaeus, 1735
The animal kingdom table of the first edition of Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae, 1735, with its six classes and its paradoxes.
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Biology & medicine
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolæ Vaccinæ
Edward Jenner, 1798
Cases XVI and XVII of Jenner’s 1798 Inquiry: a boy inoculated with cow pox in 1796 resisted smallpox inoculation.
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Biology & medicine
On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection
Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, 1858
Darwin’s and Wallace’s papers on natural selection, read together at the Linnean Society on 1 July 1858.
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Biology & medicine
Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden
Gregor Mendel, 1866
Gregor Mendel’s 1866 paper on crosses of garden peas, which set out the laws of inheritance.
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Biology & medicine
On the Antibacterial Action of Cultures of a Penicillium, with Special Reference to their Use in the Isolation of B. influenzæ
Alexander Fleming, 1929
Alexander Fleming’s 1929 paper on penicillin, the antibacterial substance made by a mould in broth cultures.
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