Top Highlights

• In every war in American history so far, disease had killed more soldiers than combat.
• The two most important questions in science are “What can I know?” and “How can I know it?”
• In 1871 Harvard did create the first laboratory of experimental medicine at any American university,
• they decided to model the Johns Hopkins University after the greatest German universities, places thick with men consumed with creating new knowledge,
• THE MEN WHO CREATED the Rockefeller Institute always intended to have a small affiliated hospital built to investigate disease. No patient would pay for treatment and only those suffering from diseases being studied would be admitted.