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Karl, baron von Rokitansky
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Born February 19, 1804 • Hradec Králové • Czech Republic
Died July 23, 1878 (aged 74) • Vienna • Austria
Notable Works “Treatise of Pathological Anatomy”
Subjects Of Study anatomy • bacterial endocarditis • disease • emphysema • liver • pneumonia • spondylolisthesis

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Jean Cruveilhier
French pathologist
Bárány, Robert
Robert Bárány
Swedish otologist
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German scientist
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Johannes Müller
German physiologist
Albrecht von Haller, detail of an engraving by Ambroise Tardieu after a portrait by Sigmund Freudenberger
Albrecht von Haller
Swiss biologist
John Hunter, detail of an oil painting by J. Jackson after Sir Joshua Reynolds; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Hunter
British surgeon
Friedrich Gustav Jacob Henle
German pathologist
Morgagni, engraving by Giovanni Volpato
Giovanni Battista Morgagni
Italian anatomist and pathologist
Cohnheim
Julius Friedrich Cohnheim
German pathologist
Donders, engraving by H. Dilcher after a drawing by F. Kriehuber, c. 1860
Frans Cornelis Donders
Dutch ophthalmologist
George H. Whipple
George H. Whipple
American pathologist
Mondino De’ Luzzi
Italian physician
John Goodsir
Scottish anatomist
Matthew Baillie
Scottish pathologist
Karl Landsteiner.
Karl Landsteiner
Austrian immunologist and pathologist
Gottlieb Haberlandt
Austrian botanist
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm
German author, folklorist, and philologist
Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician