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Hippocrates of Kos, Father of Medicine
Hippocrates of Kos was an ancient Greek physician. He has been called "the father of medicine", and is commonly regarded as one of the most outstanding figures in medicin... |
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Paracelsus, Father of Toxicology
Paracelsus was an alchemist, physician, astrologer, and general occultist. Paracelsus rejected Gnostic traditions, but kept much of the Hermetic, neoplatonic, and Pythago... |
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Herman Boerhaave, Physician
Dutch physician, anatomist, botanist, chemist and humanist. One of the most influential clinicians and teachers of the 18th century, Boerhaave spent almost his entire lif... |
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Julien De La Mettrie, Man a Machine
Julien Offroy de La Mettrie, French physician, atheist, mechanist and materialist; an infamous specimen of the Enlightenment. La Mettrie's Man a Machine (L'Homme Machine,... |
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James Lind, Cure for Scurvy
James Lind was the pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy. By conducting what was perhaps the first ever clinical trial, he proved that citrus fruits cure scurvy. He... |
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John Snow, Physician
John Snow, Physician, reformer. During the cholera epidemics of the late 1840s and early 1850s, physician John Snow realized that cholera is transmitted through contamina... |
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Dr. David Livingstone
Few Europeans have contributed as much to the exploration of Africa as a gentle Scottish missionary named David Livingstone. He was a curious combination of missionary, d... |
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Ivan Pavlov, Russian Physician
Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was a Russian physiologist, psychologist, and physician. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 for research pertaining to... |
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Aletta Jacobs, 1st Dutch Female Student
Aletta Jacobs was the first woman in Dutch history to be officially admitted to university. This took place in 1871. As a schoolgirl she had written a letter to Prime Min... |
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Sigmund Freud
Austrian physician and psychoanalyst. Freud offered a series of extended accounts of the mechanism of repression, by means of which the motives of human behavior are unre... |
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Alice Hamilton
Physician, reformer, founder of occupational medicine in the U.S. Alice Hamilton was the founder of occupational medicine in the U.S. and the first woman on the faculty o... |
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Maria Montessori, Educator/Physician
In 1894 Maria Montessori became the first woman physician in Italy. Her interest in children and education led her to open a children's school in 1907 in the slums outsid... |
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Albert Schweitzer, Humanitarian
Schweitzer has been called the greatest Christian of his time. He based his personal philosophy on a "reverence for life" and on a deep commitment to serve humanity throu... |
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