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Flourished c.275 BCE - c.225 BCE
Subjects Of Study circulation • nervous system
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Herophilus
Alexandrian physician
Aretaeus Of Cappadocia
Greek physician
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Ivan Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Russian physiologist
Marcello Malpighi
Marcello Malpighi
Italian scientist
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
Torsten Wiesel
Swedish biologist
Florence Sabin, c. 1915.
Florence Rena Sabin
American anatomist
DeBakey, Michael
Michael DeBakey
American surgeon
Sir Charles Sherrington.
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington
British physiologist
D. Carleton Gajdusek
American physician
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
British surgeon
David Hunter Hubel
American biologist
Franciscus Sylvius
Franciscus Sylvius
German physician
Matteo Colombo, oil painting by an unknown artist
Matteo Realdo Colombo
Italian physician
Roger Wolcott Sperry
American biologist
Cheselden, William
William Cheselden
British surgeon and teacher
Alexander Monro, secundus
Scottish physician, anatomist, and educator