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By Barbara Beigun Kaplan. 216 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. $40. ISBN 0-8018-4601-3.

The applicability to modern medicine of Newton's comment about "standing upon the shoulders of Giants" is vividly brought home to the reader of Barbara Kaplan's book on Robert Boyle. By repeatedly presenting information about the great natural scientist in its historical milieu, Kaplan dramatically portrays the groundbreaking importance of Boyle's contribution to modern science, and modern medicine in particular.

In the 17th century, the sharp lines between what is now considered medicine and the other scientific disciplines either were not drawn at all or, at best, were very fluid. Hence, though Boyle's only medical degree was an honorary one conferred . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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