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Helen Flanders Dunbar (1902–1959) — important early figure in U.S. psychosomatic medicine; Galen (129–c. 210) — Roman physician and anatomist; Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915) — German scientist; won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine; developed Ehrlich's reagent; Christiaan Eijkman (1858–1930) — pathologist, studied beriberi
A 12th-century manuscript of the Hippocratic Oath in Greek, one of the most famous aspects of classical medicine that carried into later eras. The history of medicine is both a study of medicine throughout history as well as a multidisciplinary field of study that seeks to explore and understand medical practices, both past and present, throughout human societies.
Silvano Raia (born 1930), Raia was the first surgeon to achieve a successful living donor liver transplantation in July 1989; B. K. Misra (born 1953), First neurosurgeon in the world to perform image-guided surgery for aneurysms, first in South Asia to perform stereotactic radiosurgery, first in India to perform awake craniotomy and laparoscopic spine surgery.
Two doctors, the first a Pneumaticist, the second an Empiricist Hua Tuo: 2nd century CE: Chinese: abilities in acupuncture, moxibustion, herbal medicine and medical Daoyin exercises Huangfu Mi: 3rd century CE: Chinese: compiled the Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion: Ji Ben: 3rd century CE: Chinese: physician who started a failed rebellion ...
Hippocrates of Kos (/ h ɪ ˈ p ɒ k r ə t iː z /, Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος, romanized: Hippokrátēs ho Kôios; c. 460 – c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.
CNN Opinion’s Kirsi Goldynia speaks with bioethicist Robert Klitzman about the growing call among physicians and medical institutions around the world to learn from the Holocaust — and other ...
Though his own textbook was a major influence in medicine for many years, Osler described Avicenna as the "author of the most famous medical textbook ever written". He noted that Avicenna's Canon of Medicine remained "a medical bible for a longer time than any other work". [34] Osler's essays were important guides to physicians.
Elizabeth Hubbard, known for her work on As the World Turns and The Doctors has died. She was 89. The news was shared on Monday by her son, Jeremy D. Bennett."I'm sorry to say with a broken heart ...