Science Museum. Brought to Life: Exploring the History of Medicine.

ThemePlease selectBelief and medicineDiseases and epidemicsHospitalsPractising medicinePublic healthScience and medicineSurgeryTreatments and curesUnderstanding the bodyWar and medicine

PlacePlease selectAlbaniaAlgeriaAncient EgyptAngolaAustraliaAustriaBarbadosBelgiumBhutanBrazilCambodiaCameroonCanadaChileChinaColombiaCyprusCzech RepublicDemocratic Republic of CongoDenmarkEgyptFranceGermanyGhanaGreeceHungaryIndiaIndonesiaIranIrelandIsraelItalyJapanJordanMacedoniaMaltaNepalNetherlandsNigeriaPakistanPapua New GuineaPeruPolandPortugalRussiaSerbia and MontenegroSingaporeSouth AfricaSpainSri LankaSudanSwedenSwitzerlandSyriaTanzaniaTunisiaTurkeyUgandaUkraineUnited KingdomUnited StatesVatican City

PeoplePlease selectAdolphe Quetelet (1796-1874)Albert Sabin (1906-93)Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi, known as Albucasis (936-1013)Alexander Fleming (1881-1955)Alexis Carrel (1873-1944)Allgemeines KrankenhausAbu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya al-Razi (Rhazes) (c. 865-925)Ambroise Paré (1510-90)Andreas Vesalius (1514-64)Anna Morandi Manzolini (1716-74)Antoine Lavoisier (1743-94)Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)ApothecariesArchibald McIndoe (1900-60)AsklepiosAulus Cornelius Celsus (1st century CE)Sir Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991)Baghdad HospitalBarber-surgeonsBernard Mandeville (1670-1733)Body-snatchersWilliam Burke (1792-1829) and William Hare (1792/1804 - c. 1858?)Byzantine hospitalsCadaversCarl Reinhold August Wunderlich (1815-77)Carl von Linné, Carolus Linnaeus (1707-78)Chang Eng Bunker (1811-74)Charles Atlas (1893-1972)Charles Byrne (1761-83)Charles Drew (1904-50)Chrissie Millie McKoy (1851-1912)Christiaan Barnard (1922-2001)Claude Bernard (1813-78)Clemente Susini (1754-1814)Constantine the African (c. 1020- d. before 1099)Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian (c. 200 CE)Craiglockhart War Hospital for OfficersChemistsDolly (1996-2003)Dominique Larrey (1766-1842)Douglas Bader (1910-82)Edward Jenner (1749-1823)Edward VII (1841-1910)Edwin Chadwick (1800-90)Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910)Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917)Sister Elizabeth Kenny (1880-1952)Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000)Enoch Powell (1912-98)Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)Eugen Sandow (1867-1925)Herbalists in EuropeFlorence Nightingale (1820-1910)Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904)Francis Crick (1916-2004)Francis Galton (1822-1911)Frederick Treves (1853-1923)Friedrich Sertürner (1783-1841)Galen (c. 129 - c. 216/17 CE)Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1545-99)George VI (1895-1952)Gerard of Cremona (c. 1114-87)Gerhard van Swieten (1700-72)Gertrude B Elion (1918-99)The Great Hospital, NorwichGuildsHarold Delf Gillies (1882-1960)Harvey Cushing (1869-1939)Henri II (1519-59)Henry Gray (1826/7-61)Henry J Kaiser (1882-1967) and HMOsHenry Mayhew (1812-87)Henry VIII (1491-1547)Henry Wellcome (1853-1936)Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738)Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-94)Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)Hippocrates (c. 460 - c. 370 BCE)Hotel DieuHoward Florey (1898-1968) and Ernst Chain (1906-79)Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-91)HygeiaIan Dury (1942-2000)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)Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-65) Imhotep (c. 2667-2648 BCE)Isabelle Dinoire (b. 1967)Islamic hospitalsIvan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936)James Barry (1792 or 1795-1865)James D Watson (b. 1928)James Graham (1745-94)James Lind (1716-94)James Phipps (1788-1853)Jane Sharp (1641-71)J M Barrie (1860-1937)John Bowlby (1907-90)John Charnley (1911-82)John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943)John Howard (1726-90)John Hunter (1728-93)John Scott Haldane (1860-1936)Johns Hopkins (1795-1873)John Snow (1813-58)John Wesley (1703-91)Jonas Salk (1914-95)Joseph Bazalgette (1819-91)Joseph Lister (1827-1912)Joseph Carey Merrick - the ‘Elephant Man’ (1862-90)Joshua Ward (1684-1761)Justus von Liebig (1803-73)Lady Grace Mildmay (c. 1552-1620)Laura Bassi (1711-78)Laura Davis (1987?-93)Leech collectorsLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)LeprosariaLewis Ralph Yealland (1884-1954)Louis Pasteur (1822-95)Louis Washkansky (1913-67)Ludwig Guttmann (1899-1980)Man-midwivesMary Seacole (1805-81)Maurice Wilkins (1916-2004)Michael Servetus (1511-53)MidwivesMonasteriesMontanus (1498-1551)Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54)War nursesOnesimus (?-?)Order of St JohnOswald Hope Robertson (1886-1966)Paracelsus (1493-1541)'Patient Zero' - Gaëtan Dugas (1953-84)Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915)Paying patientsPeter Medawar (1915-87)Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787-1872) Pierre Jean Cabanis (1757-1808) War poetsPrincess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796-1817)QuacksQueen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900-2002)Queen Victoria (1819-1901)Victims of radiation sicknessRed Cross and Red Crescent societiesReginald Watson-Jones (1902-72)Sir Richard Doll (1912-2005)Robert Jones (1857-1933)Robert Knox (1791-1862)Robert Koch (1843-1910)Roehampton - Queen Mary’s HospitalRonald Ross (1857-1932)Rosalind Franklin (1920-58)Royal College of SurgeonsSaint Apollonia (c. 200-249 CE)Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843)Seishu Hanaoka (1760-1835)ShamanSisters of MercySubscribersSusrata (c. 500 BCE)Rats and lice in the trenches'Typhoid Mary' - Mary Mallon (1869-1938)Valentine Greatrakes (1628-83)Walter Reed (1851-1902)William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)William Farr (1807-83)William Harvey (1578-1657)William Henry Perkin (1838-1907)William Thomas Green Morton (1819-68)William Halse Rivers (1864-1922)Wise womenXavier Bichat (1771-1802)

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