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Also Known As Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim
Born November 11, 1493 or December 17, 1493 • Einsiedeln • Switzerland
Died September 24, 1541 • Salzburg • Austria
Notable Works “Der grossen Wundartzney”
Subjects Of Study medicine • syphilis

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al-Rāzī
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Ehrlich, Paul
Paul Ehrlich
German medical scientist
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
George Engelmann
German botanist and physician
Bergmann, Ernst von
Ernst von Bergmann
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Persian philosopher and scientist
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
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Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
Claude Bernard
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Galen of Pergamum
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Hippocrates
Hippocrates
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Jābir ibn Ḥayyān, Abū Mūsā
Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Ḥayyān
Muslim alchemist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician
Fracastoro, engraving
Girolamo Fracastoro
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Diocles
Greek philosopher and physician
Jean Cruveilhier
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