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Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis
Ignaz Semmelweis
Hungarian physician
Sir William Watson Cheyne, 1st Baronet
British surgeon and bacteriologist
William Crawford Gorgas.
William Crawford Gorgas
United States Army surgeon
Richard Mead, detail of a 19th-century engraving by H. Cook after a portrait by Allan Ramsay, 18th century
Richard Mead
British physician
James Lind, engraving by I. Wright after a portrait by Sir George Chalmers, 1783
James Lind
British physician
Lancisi, miniature by an unknown artist
Giovanni Maria Lancisi
Italian physician
Sir Victor Horsley, c. 1910
Sir Victor Horsley
British surgeon
Sir Gilbert Blane, 1st Baronet
Scottish physician