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Reynolds
Historical
Library |
Major Figures in the History of Medicine
from the Reynolds Historical Library
Below is a list of some of the most important figures in
the history of medicine. Through the discoveries and innovations of these
people, one can trace the advancements in medicine throughout the ages.
Click on a name to read a short biographical sketch of that individual.
Highlighted within the sketches are one or two of the figure's major works held
by the Reynolds Historical Library.
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Hippocrates (c. 460-370 BC)
Galen (129-199 AD)
Rhazes (or al-Razi) (ca. 860-ca. 930 AD)
Avicenna (980-1037 AD)
Maimonides, Moses
(1135-1204)
Paracelsus (1493-1542)
Vesalius, Andreas
(1514-1564)
Paré, Ambroise (1510-1590)
Harvey, William (1578-1657)
Sydenham, Thomas (1624-1689)
Malpighi, Marcello
(1628-1694)
Hunter, John (1728-1793)
Percival, Thomas (1740-1804)
Rush, Benjamin (1745-1813)
Magendie, François (1783-1855)
Beaumont, William
(1785-1853)
Semmelweis, Ignaz (1818-1865)
Morton, William T. G.
(1819-1868)
Pasteur, Louis (1822-1895)
Koch, Robert (1843-1910)
Röntgen, Karl Wilhelm (1845-1923)
Flexner, Abraham (1866-1959)
Ehrlich, Paul (1854-1915)
Fleming, Alexander
(1888-1955)
Waksman, Selman (1888-1973)
Taussig, Helen Brooke (1898-1986)
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Image: From Andreas Vesalius's
De humani corporis fabrica
libri septem (1543), Reynolds Historical Library.
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