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Born March 17, 1741 • Wellington • England
Died October 6, 1799 (aged 58) • Birmingham • England
Notable Works “An Account of the Foxglove, and Some of Its Medical Uses”
Subjects Of Study digitalis • edema

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Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Nicholas Of Cusa
Christian scholar
botanical illustration
Pedanius Dioscorides
Greek physician
Lancisi, miniature by an unknown artist
Giovanni Maria Lancisi
Italian physician
Andrea Cesalpino
Italian physician, philosopher, and botanist
Leonhard Fuchs.
Leonhard Fuchs
German botanist and physician
Rembert Dodoens
Flemish physician and botanist
George Engelmann
German botanist and physician
Fernand-Isidore Widal
French physician and bacteriologist
Alpini, engraving
Prospero Alpini
Italian scientist
William Worrall Mayo
American physician
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
British naturalist
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist
Edward Jenner
Edward Jenner
English surgeon
Erasmus Darwin, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Wright, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Erasmus Darwin
British physician
John Ray, detail of an oil painting; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
John Ray
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Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Blackwell
British American physician
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker.
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
British botanist
John Caius
John Caius
British physician

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