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Sertürner, Adolf (1783-1841), 326

Sesame, 323

Sex organs, 306

Shaftesbury, 7th Earl (1801-85), 290

Shakespeare, William, 26

Shattuck, Lemuel (1793-1859), 202

Sherrington, Sir Charles, 309

‘Shock’, Nervous, 310-11

Sierra Leone, 276, 278

Sight, Deficient, 316-20

Simon, Sir John (1816-1904), 196-7

Simpson, Sir James Young (1811-70), 235

=606=, 332

Sleeping Sickness, 234, 272, 332

Sleepy Sickness, 272

Small-pox, 182-5, 198, 200, 261, 265, 343

Smith, Thomas S. (1788-1861), 171, 178, 193-6

Smyrna, 52

Spallanzani, Lazaro (1729-99), 147-8

Specialization, Scientific, 186-92, 359

Specific Energies, Law of, 212-13

Speculum matricis, 164

Spencer Wells, see Wells

Spencer Wells Forceps, 244

Spinal anaesthesia, 236-7

Spirochaeta pallida, 331-2

Spotted Fever, 269-70

Sprue, 272

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