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A physician is a person who practices some type of human biological medicine.
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| x Alexis Carrel |
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Alexis Carrel (June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944) was a French surgeon, biologist and eugenicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912.
Born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon , Lyon, Carrel received his medical degree from...
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Abū ‘Alī al-Ḥusayn ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Sīnā Balkhi', known as Abu Ali Sina Balkhi (Persian: ابوعلی سینا بلخى) and commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna (Greek: Aβιτζιανός, Abitzianos), (c. 980 - 1037) was a Persian polymath and the...
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| x Ibn al-Haitham |
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Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan ibn al-Ḥasan ibn al-Haytham (Arabic: ابو علي، حسن بن حسن بن الهيثم, Persian: ابن هیثم, Latinized: Alhacen or (deprecated) Alhazen) (965 in Basra - c. 1039 in Cairo), was an Arab or Persian polymath. He made significant...
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| x Anton Chekhov |
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (January 29 [O.S. January 17] 1860 – July 15 [O.S. July 2] 1904) (Russian: Анто́н Па́влович Че́хов Antòn Pàvlovič Chéchov, Russian pronunciation: [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf]) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and...
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| x Herman Boerhaave |
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Herman Boerhaave (Voorhout, December 31, 1668 – Leiden, September 23, 1738) was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital. His main achievement...
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| x Carolus Linnaeus |
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Carl Linnaeus (Latinized as Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné (help·info), May 23 [O.S. May 12] 1707 – January 10, 1778) was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern...
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| x Charles Tupper |
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Sir Charles Tupper, 1st Baronet, GCMG, CB, PC (July 2, 1821 – October 30, 1915) was a Canadian father of Confederation: as the Premier of Nova Scotia from 1864 to 1867, he led Nova Scotia into Confederation. He later went on to serve as the sixth...
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| x Christiaan Barnard |
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Christiaan Neethling Barnard (November 8, 1922 – September 2, 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon, famous for performing the world's first successful human-to-human heart transplant.
Barnard grew up in Beaufort West, South Africa. His father,...
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| x David Hayes Agnew |
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David Hayes Agnew (November 24, 1818 - March 22, 1892) was an American surgeon, born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
He graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1838, and a few years later set up in practice at...
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| x Elizabeth Garrett Anderson |
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Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, LSA, MD (9 June 1836 – 17 December 1917), was an English physician and feminist, the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.
Garrett was born in 1836 at 1 Commercial Road, Whitechapel, London, the...
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| x George Whipple |
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George Hoyt Whipple (August 28, 1878 – February 1, 1976) was an American physician, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator. Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and...
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| x Galen |
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Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (AD 129 – 200/217), better known as Galen of Pergamum (Greek: Γαληνός, Galēnos), was a prominent Roman physician and philosopher of Greek origin, and probably the most accomplished medical researcher of the Roman...
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| x Gro Harlem Brundtland |
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Gro Harlem Brundtland (help·info) (pronounced [ɡru: hɑ:ɭɛm brʉntlɑn:]) (born Gro Harlem, 20 April, 1939) is a Norwegian politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health. She is a former...
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| x Hippocrates |
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Hippocrates of Cos or Hippokrates of Kos (ca. 460 BC – ca. 370 BC) - Greek: Ἱπποκράτης; Hippokrátēs was an ancient Greek physician of the Age of Pericles, and was considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is...
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| x Hans Selye |
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Hans Hugo Bruno Selye, CC (Hungarian: Selye János) (January 26, 1907 — October 16, 1982) was a Canadian endocrinologist of Austro-Hungarian origin and Hungarian ethnicity. Selye did much important factual work on the hypothetical non-specific...
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| x Robert Koch |
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Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch (11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis (1877), the Tuberculosis bacillus (1882) and the Vibrio cholera (1883) and for his development of Koch's...
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Imhotep (sometimes spelled Immutef, Im-hotep, or Ii-em-Hotep; called Imuthes by the Greeks), fl. 27th century BC (2650-2600 BC) (Egyptian ii-m-ḥtp *jā-im-ḥatāp meaning "the one who comes in, with peace") was an Egyptian polymath, who served under...
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| x John Abercrombie |
John Abercrombie (October 10, 1780 in Aberdeen – November 14, 1844 in Edinburgh) was a Scottish physician and philosopher. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary says of him that after Dr James Gregory's death, he was "recognized as the first...
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| x John Abernethy |
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John Abernethy FRS (3 April 1764 - 20 April 1831) was an English surgeon, grandson of the Reverend John Abernethy.
He was born in Coleman Street in the City of London, where his father was a merchant. Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he...
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| x Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister |
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Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, OM, FRS (5 April 1827 – 10 February 1912) was an English surgeon who promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He successfully introduced carbolic acid (phenol) to sterilize...
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| x Louis Pasteur |
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Louis Pasteur (December 27, 1822 – September 28, 1895) was a French chemist and microbiologist born in Dole. He is best known for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of disease. His discoveries reduced mortality from puerperal...
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Moses Maimonides, also known as Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon or the acronym the Rambam (Hebrew: רבי משה בן מימון; Hebrew acronym: רמב"ם; Arabic: موسى ابن ميمون Mūsā ibn Maymūn), was born in Cordoba, Spain on March 30, 1135, and died in Egypt on December...
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| x Prospero Alpini |
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Prospero Alpini (also known as Prosper Alpinus, Prospero Alpinio and Prosper Alpin) (November 23, 1553 - February 6, 1617), was an Italian physician and botanist.
Born at Marostica, in the republic of Venice, in his youth he served for a time in the...
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| x Sushruta |
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Sushruta was a surgeon and teacher of Ayurveda who flourished in the Indian city of Kashi by the 6th century BC. The medical treatise Sushruta Samhita—compiled in Vedic Sanskrit—is attributed to him. The Sushruta Samhita contains multiple detailed...
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| x William Jardine |
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Dr. William Jardine (24 February 1784 – 27 February 1843) was a ship surgeon who went into the agency trading and opium smuggling businesses in China, where he became a powerful merchant and was instrumental in starting the First Opium War.
Jardine...
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| x Karl Brandt |
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Karl Brandt (January 8, 1904 – June 2, 1948) was selected the personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939. As Major General Reich Commissioner for Health and Sanitation he...
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| x Eudoxus of Cnidus |
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Eudoxus of Cnidus (410 or 408 BC – 355 or 347 BC) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar and student of Plato. Since all his own works are lost, our knowledge of him is obtained from secondary sources, such as Aratus's poem on astronomy....
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| x Che Guevara |
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader. Since death, his stylized...
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| x Gerhard Armauer Hansen |
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Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen (29 July 1841 – 12 February 1912) was a Norwegian physician, remembered for his identification of the bacterium Mycobacterium leprae in 1873 as the causative agent of leprosy.
Hansen was born in Bergen and studied...
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| x Anton de Bary |
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Heinrich Anton de Bary (January 26, 1831 – January 19, 1888) was a German surgeon, botanist, microbiologist, and mycologist (fungal systematics and physiology).
He is considered a founding father of plant pathology (phytopathology) as well as the...
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| x Emil Adolf von Behring |
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Emil Adolf von Behring (15 March 1854 – 31 March 1917) was a German physiologist who received the 1901 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Behring was born Adolf Emil Behring in Hansdorf (now Ławice, Iława County), Kreis Rosenberg, Province of...
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| x Benjamin Spock |
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Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998) was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than...
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| x Jonas Salk |
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Jonas Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American medical researcher and virologist, best known for his discovery and development of the first safe and effective polio vaccine. He was born in New York City, where his parents were Russian...
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| x Jean-Paul Marat |
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Jean-Paul Marat (24 May 1743 – 13 July 1793), was a Swiss-born physician, political theorist and scientist better known as a radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. His journalism was renowned for its fiery character and...
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| x Baruch Goldstein |
Baruch Kappel Goldstein (Hebrew: ברוך גולדשטיין; December 9, 1956 – February 25, 1994) was an American born Israeli physician who perpetrated the 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in the city of Hebron, killing 29 Muslims at prayer in the...
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| x François Duvalier |
Dr. François Duvalier, known as "Papa Doc" (April 14, 1907 – April 21, 1971), was the President of Haiti from 1957 to 1971. In 1964 he made himself President for Life. He ruled until his death in 1971, in a regime marked by autocracy, corruption and...
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| x Roberta Bondar |
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Roberta Lynn Bondar, OC, O.Ont, FRCP(C), FRSC (born December 4, 1945, in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) is Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. Following a distinguished career at NASA as head of space medicine for more...
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| x Frederick Banting |
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Sir Frederick Grant Banting, KBE, MC, FRSC, (November 14, 1891 – February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate noted as one of the co-discoverers of insulin. Banting's discovery is estimated to have saved over 16...
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| x Ignaz Semmelweis |
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Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (1818 – 1865) was a Hungarian physician. He discovered that cases of puerperal fever, a form of septicaemia also known as childbed fever, could be cut drastically if doctors washed their hands in a chlorine solution before...
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| x Walter Karl Koch |
Walter Karl Koch (3 May 1880 in Dortmund, Germany - 1962 ) was a German surgeon best known for the discovery of Koch's triangle, a triangular shaped area in the right atrium of the heart, and of Tawara's node, the atrioventricular node which is the...
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| x Ctesias |
Ctesias of Cnidus (Greek Κτησίας) was a Greek physician and historian from Cnidus in Caria. Ctesias, who flourished in the 5th century BC, was physician to Artaxerxes Mnemon, whom he accompanied in 401 BC on his expedition against his brother Cyrus...
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| x Al-Razi |
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Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyā Rāzī (Zakariā-ye Rāzi: Persian: زكريای رازی), known as Rhazes or Rasis after medieval Latinists, (August 26 865, Rayy— 925, Rayy) was a Persian alchemist, chemist, physician, philosopher and scholar. He is recognised...
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| x Pietro d'Abano |
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Pietro d'Abano also known as Petrus De Apono or Aponensis (c. 1250 – c. 1316) was an Italian philosopher, astrologer and professor of medicine in Padua. He was born in the Italian town from which he takes his name, now Abano Terme. He gained fame by...
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| x Polybus |
Polybus (fl. c. 400 BCE) was one of the pupils of Hippocrates, and also his son-in-law. He lived on the island of Cos in the 4th century BC. With his brothers-in-law, Thessalus and Draco, he was one of the founders of the Dogmatic school of medicine...
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| x Anders Dahl |
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Anders (Andreas) Dahl (March 17, 1751 - May 25, 1789) was a Swedish botanist and student of Carolus Linnaeus. The dahlia flower is named after him .
In 1770, Dahl entered Uppsala University as a freshman (Carolus Linnaeus died in 1778). After...
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| x Josef Mengele |
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Josef Mengele (16 March 1911 – 7 February 1979) was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He held two earned doctorates, one in anthropology from Munich University and one in medicine from Frankfurt...
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| x William Chester Minor |
William Chester Minor, also known as W. C. Minors (June 1834 – March 26, 1920) was an American surgeon who made many scholarly contributions to the Oxford English Dictionary while confined to a lunatic asylum.
Minor was born on the island of Ceylon ...
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| x Luigi Galvani |
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Luigi Galvani (September 9, 1737 – December 4, 1798) was an Italian physician and physicist who lived and died in Bologna. In 1771, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs twitched when struck by a spark. This was one of the first forays into...
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| x Norman Bethune |
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Henry Norman Bethune (March 3, 1890 – November 12, 1939; Chinese name: 白求恩; pinyin: Bái Qiúēn) was a Canadian physician and medical innovator. Bethune is best known for his service in war time medical units during the Spanish Civil War and with the...
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| x Olaus Rudbeck |
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Olaus Rudbeck (also known as Olof Rudbeck the Elder, to distinguish him from his son, and occasionally with the surname Latinized as Olaus Rudbeckius) (September 13, 1630 – December 12, 1702), Swedish scientist and writer, professor of medicine at...
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| x Erik Waller |
Erik Waller (1875–1955) was a Swedish surgeon and book collector.
With good judgment, and sparing no expense, Dr. Waller collected some 20,000 important books on science and medicine, including 150 incunabula and other early editions. In his last...
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| x Georg Ernst Stahl |
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Georg Ernst Stahl (October 22, 1659 – May 24, 1734), was a German chemist and physician.
He was born at Ansbach. Having graduated in medicine at the University of Jena in 1683, he became court physician to Duke Johann Ernst of Sachsen Weimar in 1687...
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| x Francis Davis Millet |
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Francis Davis Millet (November 3, 1846 - April 15, 1912) was an American painter, sculptor, and writer who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic on April 15, 1912.
Francis Davis Millet was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. At age sixteen, Millet...
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| x George H. Tichenor |
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George Humphrey Tichenor (April 12, 1837 - January 14, 1923) was a Kentucky-born physician who introduced antiseptic surgery while in the service of the Confederate States of America. Thereafter, in private practice in Canton (Madison County),...
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| x Wong Fei Hung |
![Wong Fei Hung's tenth son, said to most resemble Wong Fei Hung.[citation needed]](http://img.freebase.com/api/trans/image_thumb//guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000004adf84b?maxheight=64&mode=fillcropmid&maxwidth=64)
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Wong Fei Hung or Hwang Fei Hung (traditional Chinese: 黃飛鴻; simplified Chinese: 黄飞鸿; pinyin: Huáng Fēihóng; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Fēihùhng) (1847–1924) was a martial artist, a medical doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, and revolutionary who...
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| x Francesco Redi |
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Francesco Redi (Arezzo, February 18, 1626 – Pisa, March 1, 1697) was an Italian physician.
He is most well-known for his series of experiments, published in 1668 as Experienza Intorno all Generazione degl'Insetto (Experiments on the Generation of...
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| x William Osler |
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Sir William Osler, 1st Baronet (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician.
He has been called one of the greatest icons of modern medicine and described as the Father of Modern Medicine. Osler was a physician, clinician,...
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| x John Hunter |
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John Hunter FRS (13 February 1728 – 16 October 1793) was a Scottish surgeon regarded as one of the most distinguished scientists and surgeons of his day. He was an early advocate of careful observation and scientific method in medicine. The...
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| x Heliodorus |
Heliodorus is a Greek name meaning "Gift of the Sun". Several persons named Heliodorus are known to us from ancient times, the best known of which are:
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| x Jennie Kidd Trout |
Jennie Kidd Trout (April 21, 1841 - November 10, 1921) was the first woman in Canada legally to become a medical doctor, and was the only woman in Canada licensed to practice medicine until 1880, when Emily Stowe completed the official...
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