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Born 1560 • Paris • France
Died 1631 (aged 71) • London • England
Subjects Of Study birth • forceps
Gertie F. Marx
American physician
Simpson, Sir James Young, 1st Baronet
Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet
Scottish physician
Walter Channing
American physician
William Worrall Mayo
American physician
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner
English surgeon
Paré, detail of an engraving, 1582
Ambroise Paré
French surgeon
Bowman, Sir William, 1st Baronet
Sir William Bowman, 1st Baronet
English surgeon and histologist
Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan
British surgeon
Cheselden, William
William Cheselden
British surgeon and teacher
Alexis Carrel.
Alexis Carrel
French surgeon, sociologist, and biologist
Hugh Chamberlen, the Elder
British midwife
Sir Victor Horsley, c. 1910
Sir Victor Horsley
British surgeon
Dupuytren, lithograph by F.S. Delpech
Guillaume, Baron Dupuytren
French surgeon and pathologist
Sir John Simon
Sir John Simon
British surgeon
Dominique-Jean, Baron Larrey
French military surgeon
Guy de Chauliac
French physician
Wilfred Trotter
British surgeon and sociologist
Frank Jobe
American orthopedic surgeon
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician