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A - FACT UPAbu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi, known as Albucasis (936-1013)Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi (Rhazes) (c. 865-925)Allgemeines KrankenhausAmerican Medical Association (AMA)Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917)ApothecariesAsklepiosCharles Atlas (1893-1972)Joseph Leopold Auenbrugger (1722-1809)Douglas Bader (1910-82)Baghdad HospitalMartha Ballard (1735-1812)Frederick Banting (1891-1941) and Charles Best (1899-1978)Barber-surgeonsChristiaan Barnard (1922-2001)J M Barrie (1860-1937)James Barry (1792 or 1795-1865)Laura Bassi (1711-78)Joseph Bazalgette (1819-91)Joseph Bell (1837-1911)Claude Bernard (1813-78)Alphonse Bertillon (1853-1914)Xavier Bichat (1771-1802)Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)Body-snatchersHerman Boerhaave (1668-1738)John Bowlby (1907-90)Paul Broca (1824-80)Chang Eng Bunker (1811-74)William Burke (1792-1829) and William Hare (1792/1804 - c. 1858?)Charles Byrne (1761-83)Byzantine hospitalsCadaversAlexis Carrel (1873-1944)Aulus Cornelius Celsus (1st century CE)Edwin Chadwick (1800-90)The Chamberlen family (late 1500s - early 1700s)Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-93)John Charnley (1911-82)ChemistsFrances Power Cobbe (1822-1904)Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845-1923)Constantine the African (c. 1020- d. before 1099)Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian (c. 200 CE)Craiglockhart War Hospital for OfficersFrancis Crick (1916-2004)Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54)Marie Curie (1867-1934)Pierre Curie (1859-1906)Harvey Cushing (1869-1939)Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882)Laura Davis (1987?-93)Isabelle Dinoire (b. 1967)Dorothea Dix (1802-87)Sir Richard Doll (1912-2005)Dolly (1996-2003)Ian Donald (1910-87)Charles Drew (1904-50)Ian Dury (1942-2000)Edward VII (1841-1910)Patrick Steptoe (1913-88) and Robert Edwards (1925-)Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915)Gertrude B Elion (1918-99)Willem Einthoven (1860-1927)Expert patientsGabriello Fallopio (1523-62)William Farr (1807-83)Frantz Fanon (1925-61)Adolf Eugen Fick (1852-1937)Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)Howard Florey (1898-1968) and Ernst Chain (1906-79)Food and Drugs Administration (FDA)Rosalind Franklin (1920-58)Emanuel Friedman (1926-)Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
G - LGalen (c. 129 - c. 216/17 CE)Francis Galton (1822-1911)King George III (1738-1820)George VI (1895-1952)Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114-87)Harold Delf Gillies (1882-1960)James Graham (1745-94)Henry Gray (1826/7-61)The Great Hospital, NorwichValentine Greatrakes (1628-83)Chemie Grünenthal GmbHGuildsLudwig Guttmann (1899-1980)Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)John Scott Haldane (1860-1936)Seishu Hanaoka (1760-1835)William Burke (1792-1829) and William Hare (1792/1804 - c. 1858?)William Harvey (1578-1657)Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-94)William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)Henri II (1519-59)Henry VIII (1491-1547)Herbalists in EuropeHerophilus of Chalcedon (c. 330-260 BCE)Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)Sir Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991)Hippocrates (c. 460 - c. 370 BCE)Lancelot Hogben (1895-1975)Robert Hooke (1635-1703)Johns Hopkins (1795-1873)Hotel DieuJohn Howard (1726-90)John Hunter (1728-93)HygeiaAlbert Hyman Ala al-Din Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Abi-Hazm al-Qarshi al-Dimashqi (Ibn al-Nafis) (1210-88)Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdullah ibn Sina (Ibn Sina) (980-1037 CE)Imhotep (c. 2667-2648 BCE)Islamic hospitalsEdward Jenner (1749-1823)Robert Jones (1857-1933)Henry J Kaiser (1882-1967) and HMOsJohn Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943)Frances Oldham Kelsey (1914-)Sister Elizabeth Kenny (1880-1952)Robert Knox (1791-1862)Robert Koch (1843-1910)Willem Kolff (1911-2009)Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926)Henrietta Lacks (1920-51)René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826)Dominique Larrey (1766-1842)Antoine Lavoisier (1743-94)Leech collectorsAntoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)LeprosariaThomas Lewis (1881-1945)Justus von Liebig (1803-73)James Lind (1716-94)Carl von Linné, Carolus Linnaeus (1707-78)Joseph Lister (1827-1912)Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909)Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787-1872) Margaret Lowenfeld (1890-1973)
M - SThomas Malthus (1766-1834)Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733)Josef Mengele (1911-1979)Man-midwivesAnna Morandi Manzolini (1716-74)Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)Henry Mayhew (1812-87)Archibald McIndoe (1900-60)Chrissie Millie McKoy (1851-1912)Peter Medawar (1915-87)Joseph Carey Merrick - the ‘Elephant Man’ (1862-90)MidwivesLady Grace Mildmay (c. 1552-1620)MonasteriesMontanus (1498-1551)Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682-1771)William Thomas Green Morton (1819-68)National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)Onesimus (?-?)Order of St JohnGarcia de Orta (1501/02-68)Paracelsus (1493-1541)Ambroise Paré (1510-90)Louis Pasteur (1822-95)'Patient Zero' - Gaëtan Dugas (1953-84)Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936)Paying patientsBertha Pappenheim, ‘Anna O’ (1859-1936)Elizabeth Ware Packard (1816-97)William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)James Phipps (1788-1853)Gregory Pincus (1903-67)Philippe Pinel (1745-1826)Enoch Powell (1912-98)Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796-1817)QuacksQueen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900-2002)Queen Victoria (1819-1901)Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874)Radiologists and radiographersRats and lice in the trenchesRed Cross and Red Crescent societiesWalter Reed (1851-1902)Ibn Ridwan (998-1061/69)William Halse Rivers (1864-1922)Oswald Hope Robertson (1886-1966)Roehampton - Queen Mary’s HospitalRonald Ross (1857-1932)Royal College of SurgeonsAlbert Sabin (1906-93)Saint Apollonia (c. 200-249 CE)Jonas Salk (1914-95)Eugen Sandow (1867-1925)Margaret Sanger (1879-1966)Mary Seacole (1805-81)Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-65) Friedrich Sertürner (1783-1841)Michael Servetus (1511-53)ShamanJane Sharp (1641-71)Jacob Sheskin (1914-1999)Li Shi-Zhen (1518-93)Sisters of MercyLeonard Skeggs (1918-2002)William Smellie (1697-1763)John Snow (1813-58)Alice Stewart (1906-2002)Sarah Stone (active 1701-37)Marie Stopes (1880-1958)SubscribersClemente Susini (1754-1814)Susrata (c. 500 BCE)Gerhard van Swieten (1700-72)Thomas Sydenham (1624-89)
T - ZGaspare Tagliacozzi (1545-99)Wilhelm Ten Rhijne (1647-1700)Michel Ter-Pogossian (1925-96)Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-91)Leonard Thompson (1908-35)Traditional birth attendantsTranslators and interpretersFrederick Treves (1853-1923)William Tuke (1732-1822)'Typhoid Mary' - Mary Mallon (1869-1938)Andreas Vesalius (1514-64)Victims of radiation sicknessLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)Augustus Désiré Waller (1856-1922)War nursesWar poetsJoshua Ward (1684-1761)Louis Washkansky (1913-67)James D Watson (b. 1928)Reginald Watson-Jones (1902-72)Henry Wellcome (1853-1936)John Wesley (1703-91)Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000)Maurice Wilkins (1916-2004)Francis Willis (1718-1807)Wise womenWorld Health Organisation (WHO)Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich (1815-77)Lewis Ralph Yealland (1884-1954)