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Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: From Evangelical to Medical Officer of Health ONE: Choosing Medicine TWO: Medical Officer of Health PART II: Making a Career in Medical Research THREE: Before the Germ Theory: The Cattle Plague of 1865-1866 and the State Support of Pathology FOUR: From Clinician-Researcher to Professional Physiologist: Making the Pulse Visible FIVE: Becoming a Research Pathologist: The Rise of Laboratory Medicine in Britain SIX: Focusing on Physiology: Capturing the Venus's-Flytrap's Electrical Activity PART II: The Medical Sciences: Critics and Allies SEVEN: Physicians, Anti vivisectionists, and the Failure of the Oxford School of Physiology EIGHT: A Corner Turned? Experimental Medicine in Late Victorian Britain List of Abbreviations Appendix: Researchers Associated with Burdon Sanderson in Britain Notes Index

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