Physicians, Medicine: History of Healers through the Ages

Physicians:

• Physician
• Leger
• Livlege.
• Book: "Norges læger 1800-1908" Isak Kobro - H. Aschehoug - Christiania 1908.

Medicine:

• Medicine
• On Ancient medicine, a collection of ancient Greek medical texts attributed to Hippocrates and written probably in the late 5th century BC
• Pharmaceutical drug
• Hippocratic Oath

Profiles:

Selected physicians by activity period:

Profile links in bold are to Geni Profiles. Those not in bold are to external web pages.

BCE

• Imhotep (2650 BCE – 2600 BCE) Considered to be the first architect, and engineer, and physician in early history.
• Suśruta सुश्रुत (sʊʃɾʊt̪) ( lived ca. 600 BCE). He is an ancient Indian surgeon and is the author of the book Suśruta Saṃhitā, in which he describes over 300 surgical procedures, 120 surgical instruments and classifies human surgery in eight categories.
• Hippocrates (460 BCE – 370 BCE). He is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is referred to as the father of Western medicine in recognition of his lasting contributions to the field as the founder of the Hippocratic School of medicine.

0 - 1000

• Pedanius Dioscorides (40-90)

1000 - 1500

• Moses Maimonides; משה בן מימון - הרמב"ם ; موسى ابن ميمون ; Mūsā ibn Maymūn (c. 1138 – 1204) was the preeminent medieval Jewish philosopher and one of the greatest Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. He worked as a the Khalif's physician and served as a rabbi and philosopher in Spain, Morocco and Egypt.
• Mondino de Luzzi (ca. 1270 – 1326), or Mundinus, was an Italian physician, anatomist, and professor of surgery from Bologna. He is often credited as the “restorer of anatomy”.

XVI century

• Paracelsus (Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim), (11 Nov. or 17 Dec. 1493 – 24 Sep. 1541) German-Swiss Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist.
• John Clement (1500 – 1572) Fellow, Consiliarius and President of the College of Physicians.
• Andreas Vesalius (1514 – 1564) Flemish anatomist and physician, considered the founder of modern human anatomy.

XVII century

• William Harvey (Apr. 1, 1578 – Jun. 3, 1657) English physician who was the first person to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the body by the heart.

XVIII century

• Eduard Jenner (May 17, 1749 – Jan. 26, 1823) English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine. He is often called "the father of immunology", and his work is said to have "saved more lives than the work of any other man".
• Johan Vilhelm Rips (ca 1740-....) lege i Alta 1768.
• Georg Friderich Gade (1743-1776)
• Andreas Vincent Stoltenberg (1751-1814) lege i Alta
• Jens Cron (ca 1740) lege i Kongsberg
• Dr. Luther Waterman (c. 1753-1807)
• Niels Christoffer Suhr (1768-1816) lege i Alta
• John Gordon (ca 1740-) landfysikus på Saint Croix, dansk koloni i Vestindia (Caribia, America). St Croix St Croix , De dansk vestindiske øer *De dansk vestindiske øer
• Michael Skjelderup (1769-1852) professor i medisin

XIX century

• Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) — founder of psychoanalysis
• Joseph Lister (1827–1912) — pioneer of antiseptic surgery
• Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases.
• Wilhelm Uchermann (1817-1874)
• Armauer Hansen, on Geni and Armauer Hansen (1841-1912), wikipedia
• Richard Hughes (1836-1902) the ‘Grand Old Man’ of British homeopathy.
• Robert Koch, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1905 (1843-1910) German physician, considered one of the founders of microbiology.
• Surgeon-Captain Matthew Louis Hughes was one of the earliest experts in Army hygiene. He had made a special study of the prevention of disease (especially Malta fever) and the control of epidemics.
• Isak Kobro (1867-1953)

XX century

• Christiaan Neethling Barnard (1922-2001) heart transplant
• Hans Eng, wikipedia livlege til Vidkun Quisling
• Trude Johnsen (1872-ca 1950) distriktslege i Talvik 1915-1920.
• Karl Landsteiner, Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine 1930 (1868 - 1943), father of blood transfusion.
• Hanna Mustaparta (1906-1993)
• Kristian Nikolaisen (1916-d)
• Fredrik Kiil (1921)
• Willem Johan "Pim" Kolff (February 14, 1911 – February 11, 2009) Duch & American physician pioneer of hemodialysis, considered to be the Father of Artificial Organs, and is regarded as one of the most important physicians of the 20th century.

Other projects on Geni about medicine:

• Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Prominent Scientists: (ii) Medicine & Life Sciences project