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Born 1795 • Scotland
Died March 25, 1860 (aged 65) • Manchester • England
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Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner
English surgeon
Pott, Sir Percivall
Sir Percivall Pott
English surgeon
“The father of the Paralympic movement”
Ludwig Guttmann
English neurosurgeon
Fiona Wood, 2005.
Fiona Wood
Australian surgeon
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
British surgeon
Bowman, Sir William, 1st Baronet
Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet
English surgeon and histologist
Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan
British surgeon
Sir William Watson Cheyne, 1st Baronet
British surgeon and bacteriologist
Paget
Sir James Paget, 1st Baronet
British surgeon and physiologist
Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet
British physiologist
Sir Victor Horsley, c. 1910
Sir Victor Horsley
British surgeon
Sir John Simon
Sir John Simon
British surgeon
Wilfred Trotter
British surgeon and sociologist
Sir Jonathan Hutchinson
British pathologist
Elliotson, detail of a lithograph
John Elliotson
British physician
Charles William Mayo
American physician
Charles Horace Mayo
American physician
William Worrall Mayo
American physician
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician