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A - F Abu 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 Krankenhaus Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) Apothecaries Asklepios Charles Atlas (1893-1972) Douglas Bader (1910-82) Baghdad Hospital Barber-surgeons Christiaan Barnard (1922-2001) J M Barrie (1860-1937) James Barry (1792 or 1795-1865) Laura Bassi (1711-78) Joseph Bazalgette (1819-91) Claude Bernard (1813-78) Xavier Bichat (1771-1802) Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) Body-snatchers Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) John Bowlby (1907-90) Chang Eng Bunker (1811-74) William Burke (1792-1829) and William Hare (1792/1804 - c. 1858?) Charles Byrne (1761-83) Byzantine hospitals Pierre Jean Cabanis (1757-1808) Cadavers Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) Aulus Cornelius Celsus (1st century CE) Edwin Chadwick (1800-90) John Charnley (1911-82) Chemists Frances Power Cobbe (1822-1904) Constantine the African (c. 1020- d. before 1099) Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian (c. 200 CE) Craiglockhart War Hospital for Officers Francis Crick (1916-2004) Nicholas Culpeper (1616-54) Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) Laura Davis (1987?-93) Isabelle Dinoire (b. 1967) Sir Richard Doll (1912-2005) Dolly (1996-2003) Charles Drew (1904-50) Ian Dury (1942-2000) Edward VII (1841-1910) Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) Gertrude B Elion (1918-99) William Farr (1807-83) Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) Howard Florey (1898-1968) and Ernst Chain (1906-79) Rosalind Franklin (1920-58)
G - L Galen (c. 129 - c. 216/17 CE) Francis Galton (1822-1911) 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, Norwich Valentine Greatrakes (1628-83) Guilds Ludwig 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 Europe Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) Sir Austin Bradford Hill (1897-1991) Hippocrates (c. 460 - c. 370 BCE) Johns Hopkins (1795-1873) Hotel Dieu John Howard (1726-90) John Hunter (1728-93) Hygeia 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 hospitals Edward Jenner (1749-1823) Robert Jones (1857-1933) Henry J Kaiser (1882-1967) and HMOs John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943) Sister Elizabeth Kenny (1880-1952) Robert Knox (1791-1862) Robert Koch (1843-1910) Dominique Larrey (1766-1842) Antoine Lavoisier (1743-94) Leech collectors Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) Leprosaria Justus von Liebig (1803-73) James Lind (1716-94) Carl von Linné, Carolus Linnaeus (1707-78) Joseph Lister (1827-1912) Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis (1787-1872)
M - S Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733) Man-midwives Anna 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) Midwives Lady Grace Mildmay (c. 1552-1620) Monasteries Montanus (1498-1551) William Thomas Green Morton (1819-68) Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) Onesimus (?-?) Order of St John Paracelsus (1493-1541) Ambroise Paré (1510-90) Louis Pasteur (1822-95) 'Patient Zero' - Gaëtan Dugas (1953-84) Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) Paying patients William Henry Perkin (1838-1907) James Phipps (1788-1853) Enoch Powell (1912-98) Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796-1817) Quacks Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1900-2002) Queen Victoria (1819-1901) Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874) Rats and lice in the trenches Red Cross and Red Crescent societies Walter Reed (1851-1902) William Halse Rivers (1864-1922) Oswald Hope Robertson (1886-1966) Roehampton - Queen Mary’s Hospital Ronald Ross (1857-1932) Royal College of Surgeons Albert Sabin (1906-93) Saint Apollonia (c. 200-249 CE) Jonas Salk (1914-95) Eugen Sandow (1867-1925) Mary Seacole (1805-81) Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-65) Friedrich Sertürner (1783-1841) Michael Servetus (1511-53) Shaman Jane Sharp (1641-71) Sisters of Mercy John Snow (1813-58) Subscribers Clemente Susini (1754-1814) Susrata (c. 500 BCE) Gerhard van Swieten (1700-72)
T - Z Gaspare Tagliacozzi (1545-99) Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-91) Frederick Treves (1853-1923) 'Typhoid Mary' - Mary Mallon (1869-1938) Andreas Vesalius (1514-64) Victims of radiation sickness Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) War nurses War poets Joshua 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) Wise women Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich (1815-77) Lewis Ralph Yealland (1884-1954)