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• Asklepios

Antiquity

• Imhotep (lived around 2650 v. Chr.), Egyptian architect and physician
• Susruta (approx. 500 v. Chr.)
• Hippokrates (approx. 460 - 370 v. Chr.)
• Gaius Stertinius Xenophon (1. Jh. n. Chr.)
• Aulus Cornelius Celsus (approx. *25 v. Chr. ; "† 50 n. Chr.)
• Charaka (approx. 120 n. CH.)
• Galen, (around 129 - around 199 n. Chr.), Greek physician and Anatom
• Vagbhatta (approx. 500 n. Chr.)

The Middle Ages

• Alexander of Tralles (525 - 605)
• Abu Bakr Mohammad Ibn Zakariya aluminum Razi - (865-925) - Persian physician and philosopher, the "“Hippokrates of the Orients"”
• Avicenna (980 - 1037)
• Trotula ("† 1097)
• Hildegard of being gene (1098 - 1179) - their the title "“first German lady doctor"” is awarded. After 1150 written Hildegard with Causae et Curae (causes and healings) a paper over ill humans and further naturkundlichen works like the Liber subtilitatum diversarum naturarum creaturarum. Hildegards of works apply until today as one of the most important sources to nature welfare procedures.
• Pietro d'Abano (1250 - 1316) - Italian physician, philosopher and Astrologe
• Dino del Garbo ("† 1327), Italian physician and philosopher
• Gentile there Foligno ("† 1348), Italian physician and philosopher
• Paracelsus (1493/94 - 1541)

Modern times

A

• Aaken, Ernst van (1910-1981) - German sport physician and coach
• Abadie, Jean Marie Charles (1842-1932) - French Ophthalmologe
• Eagle, Alfred (1870-1937) - Austrian optician and founder of the individual psychology
• Albers Heinrich (1865-1921) - the Nestor of the German and first university teacher for in Germany
• Alexander, W. Stewart, Australian pathologist, Erstbeschreiber of the Alexander illness
• Alzheimer, Alois, (1864-1915) - German psychiatrist, Erstbeschreiber of the "“Alzheimer illness"”
• Fish, Edward H. (1855-1930) American founder of the classification of the anomalies of dentures for the situation relationship of the first molecular ones to each other
• Apgar, Virginia (1909-1974) - American Chirurgin and developed the so-called Apgar index, to the of newborn children
• Aschoff, Ludwig (1866-1942) - most renowned German pathologist of the first half 20. Century
• Asperger, Hans's (1906-1980) - child physician from Austria, discoverer of the Asperger syndrome
• Averbeck, Heinrich (1844-1889) - German physician and cure physician, is considered as founder of the modern physical welfare methods and their combination

B

• Banting, Frederick (1891-1941) - Mitentdecker of the insulin, 1923
• Barn pool of broadcasting corporations, Christiaan (1922-2001) - South African surgeon, led the team, which accomplished 1967 the first Herztransplantation
• Basedow, Carl of (1799-1854) - described 1858 after it designated "“Basedow illness"” (thyroid hyperactivity)
• Behring, Emil of (1854-1917) - German physician and researcher, received the first Nobelpreis for medicine to 1901. Develops the preventing Diphtherie protective inoculation.
• Miner, Ernst of (1836-1907) - one of the completely large surgeons 19. Century, "“father of the Asepsis"”
• Miner, Gustav of (1878-1955) - internalist, founder of functional thinking in the medicine
• Best, Charles (1899-1971) - Mitentdecker of the insulin
• Bezold, Albert of (1836-1868), Mitentdecker of the Bezold Jarisch reflex
• Bichat, Marie Xavier (1771-1802) - French Anatom and physiologist, put the foundation-stone to the today's fabric teachings and are considered as a Wegbereiter of the modern medicine
• Beer, August (1861-1949) - highly gifted surgeon, inventor of the and the steel helmet
• Billroth, Theodor (1829-1894), one of the most important surgeons 19. Century, founder of the modern belly surgery and pioneer of the laryngeal surgery
• Binswanger, Otto (1852-1929) - Swiss, in Jena more actively, completely meaning psychiatrist, research over Neurasthenie, epilepsy and hysteria
• Bircher, Eugen (1882-1956), important Swiss surgeon, founder of the Arthroskopie, military surgeon, commander of division and national council
• Black, Greene Vardiman (1836-1915) - American dentist, founder of the filling classification
• Bleuler, Eugen (1857-1939) - Swiss psychiatrist, description of the schizophrenia (1911)
• Bochdalek, Vincent Alexander (1801-1883), Czech Anatom, which described a set of anatomical structures and false formations
• Boericke, William (1849 - 1929) - important American
• Bogorad, F.A., Russian neuro pathologist, the Erstbeschreiber of the crocodile tear phenomenon
• Bonhoeffer, Karl (1868-1948) - German psychiatrist, experience of the Psychosen, Forensik
• Clemens Maria Franz of (1785 - 1864) - pioneer of practice
• Mats (* 1922), Swedish one the Erstbeschreiber of the Forssmann Lehmann syndrome
• Brandt, Karl (1904-1948) Begleitarzt Hitler and Reichskommissar for the medical and health service, (euthanasia)
• Brown, Heinrich (1862-1934) - German physician from Zwickau, coined/shaped the term of the line anaesthesia, inventor of the Braun' rail, co-author of the famous beer brown OI teachings
• Bretonneau, Pierre (1778-1862), French physician, who introduced 1826 the name Diphtherie (when
• Emil (1919-2001) - German surgeon, pioneer of the art heart research and the Organtransplantation

C

• Carus, Carl Gustav (1789-1869) - Anatom, pathologist, psychologist and Wegbereiter of the modern medicine and natural science
• Cochrane, archie (1909-1988) - founders of the evidence-based medicine
• Charcot, Jean Martin (1825-1893) - the prominent French mental specialist of his time, founder of the
• Crohn, Burrill (1884-1983) - American Gastroenterologe, Erstbeschreibung M. Crohn
• Cushing, Harvey Williams (1869-1939) - American brain surgeon and Endokrinologe (Cushing syndrome), inventors of the modern Narkoseprotokolls (blood pressure and heart frequency seized during surgical operations)
• Czerny, Vincenz (1842-1916) - surgeon, cancer researcher

D

• Dettweiler, Peter (1837-1904) - directors/conductors of the lung mental hospital in Falkenstein/Taunus and founders of the sanatorium nature in Germany
• Dieffenbach, Johann Friedrich (1792-1847) - one of the fathers of the plastic surgery
• Donders, Franz Cornelius (1818-1889) - one of the fathers of the modern Ophthalmologie
• Drenckhahn, Detlev - famous Anatom and Histologe

E

• Honestly, Paul (1854-1915) - father of the modern chemotherapy
• Erxleben, Dorothea Christiane (1715-1762) - first German lady doctor attained a doctorate
• Esmarch, Friedrich of (1823-1908) - famous Kieler surgeon, founder of the first assistance in Germany, operated in a black operation robe, Esmarch handle
• Eustachi, Bartolomeo (1500/1513 - 1574) - founder of modern anatomy

F

• Fabrizio, Girolamo (1537 - 1619), also mentioned: Fabrizio d'Acquapendente after its place of birth) - Italian Anatom and Embryologe
• Ferrier, David (1843-1928) - British neurologist, furnished the proof as the first that the bodily functions are steered by certain centers in the brain
• Finkelstein, Heinrich (1865 - 1942), German child physician and pioneer of the baby medicine
• Finsen, Niels Ryberg (1860-1904) - Danish founder of the light therapy
• Fleming, Alexander (1881-1955) - British discoverer of penicillin
• Forssmann, Werner Otto Theodor (1904-1979) - German physician, who recognized the heart catheter by self attempts as innovative possibility with the investigation and treatment of heart diseases. It received - together with the US-American physicians Frdric Cournand and Dickinson Woodruff Richards the Nobelpreis for medicine
• Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939) - Austrian neurologist and founder of the psychoanalysis
• max (1846-1920), Anatom, Ornithologe, physician

G

• Philippe Gaucher (1854-1918), French dermatologist, 1882 Erstbeschreiber of the disease Gaucher
• Gersuny, Robert (1844-1924) - Austrian surgeon, developer of different surgical and operation methods
• Gibson, Thomas (1915-1993), Scottish physician and researcher, which admit in particular by work to the Organtransplantation, Immunologie and plastic surgery became
• de Graaf, Reinier (1641-1673) - Netherlands Anatom
• Golgi, Camillo (1843-1926) - Italian Histologe, among other things developer of the silver nitrate colouring and discoverer of different cell and fabric structures
• Graefe, Albrecht of (1828-1870) - citizens of Berlin optician and founder of the eye medicine as independent subject in Germany
• Griesinger, William (1817-1868) - founders of the materialistic psychiatry
• Alfred (1907-1985) - Bonn surgeon, made 1969 the first Lebertransplantation in Germany
• Grote, Louis Ruyter Radcliffe (1886-1960) - physician, relevant at the study diabetes takes part, founders of the music therapy
• Alfred Gysi (1865-1957) - Swiss tooth physician, brought 1909 out the first Artikulator, with which the Kieferbewegungen could be reproduced satisfyingly