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• Society: History: By Topic: Science: People  (11)

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• Ambrose Pare - Journeys in Diverse Places - Recounts experiences of this 16th century French battlefield surgeon from various battles over a thirty year period. Discusses medical procedures in the field.
• Claude Bernard Database - Dedicated to France's most distinguished 19th century medical scientist. Contains a biography, quotations, bibliography and images of Bernard.
• Collected Papers of R.A. Fisher 1890-1962 - Specialized in statistical studies relating to genetics, evolution and eugenics. Project to put online all the papers published in five volumes by the University of Adelaide between 1971 and 1974.
• Dr. Earle B. Weiss - The life and collected writings of this Boston and Worcester area physician (born in 1932), Massachusetts Thoracic Society past president, and Chadwick Medal recipient.
• Elizabeth Blackwell - A biography of the first woman to earn an M.D. degree. Includes a list of her publications, famous family members, mention of her Civil War service and links to additional resources.
• Elizabeth Blackwell: That Girl There is Doctor of Medicine - First woman to have received an MD degree at Geneva medical college . Includes biographical data about early classroom experiences, display photos and manuscript quotes. From an online version of an exhibit held in 1999 at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda.
• Galen - Presents the work of this ancient Greek physician who also wrote about philosophy and philology.
• Galen of Pergamum - Presents historical and educational background, achievements, treatment methods, and theories of the second century physiologist and philosopher. Part of the history of science chronology project by students from the University of Dayton.
• John Snow - Life and times of a nineteenth century British physician, prominent in both epidemiology and anesthesiology.
• Joseph Lister - English surgeon credied with the introduction of antisepsis. Brief biography and extract from his writings.
• The Long View from the Watonwan River by William Hoffman - Biography of the co-founder of Burroughs Wellcome, who spent his boyhood on the Minnesota frontier. With footnotes and related links.
• Oliva Sabuco - A 16th century Spanish pioneering women, who studied the relationship between the emotional condition of a subject and the person's physical health. Includes photos of documents.
• Robert Knox, MD (1791-1862) - Attempts to restore the reputation of the anatomist. Article by I. MacLaren on the medical teacher and first conservator of the Edinburgh College Museum, whose career was shattered and his reputation blighted by fortuitous association with a macabre scandal.
• Robert Koch, M.D. (1843-1910) - Biography of the German physician who is considered as one of the founders of bacteriology. Koch became famous for the discovery of the anthrax, the tuberculosis and the cholera bacillus and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• Samuel Thomson - Facsimile of 1835 edition of Botanic Family Physician. [PDF]
• Sir Henry Wellcome and the Sudan - Archival material and images related to the projects of this scientist within this region of eastern Africa, including an excavation camp and establishment of the Wellcome Tropical research Laboratories in Khartoum.