Intro Tales

Exemplary Tales of (Mostly) Nineteenth Century Medical and Epidemiological Discovery Through Abductive Reasoning

This source includes the seminal medically-oriented contributions from fifteen Nineteenth Century researchers: Edward Jenner; Ignaz Semmelweis; John Snow; William Budd; Louis Pasteur; Robert Koch; Joseph Lister; Patrick Manson (Ronald Ross); Paul-Louis Simond (Alexandre Yersin); Carlos Finlay (Walter Reed) Theobald Smith; Charles Nicolle.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka” (I found it), but [rather] “That’s funny …”

-Isaac Asimov (1920-1992)