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Born May 22, 1733 • Edinburgh • Scotland
Died October 2, 1817 (aged 84) • Edinburgh • Scotland
House / Dynasty Monro family
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Alexander Monro, primus
Scottish physician and professor of anatomy
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Alexander Monro, tertius
Scottish physician, anatomist, and educator
William Cullen
William Cullen
Scottish physician and professor
The “father of scientific surgery”
John Hunter
British surgeon
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Sir Robert Sibbald
Scottish physician and antiquarian
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Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, 1st Baron Moynihan
British surgeon
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Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet
British physician
Sir Alexander Fleming sits holding a petri dish in one hand, wearing a suit and bow tie, with papers stacked beside him.
Alexander Fleming
Scottish bacteriologist
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Sir William Watson Cheyne, 1st Baronet
British surgeon and bacteriologist
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John Fullarton
British surgeon and banker
J.J.R. Macleod, 1920
J.J.R. Macleod
Scottish physiologist
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
William Osler
Sir William Osler, Baronet
Canadian physician
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René Laënnec
French physician
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius
Belgian physician
Florence Sabin, c. 1915.
Florence Rena Sabin
American anatomist
Franciscus Sylvius
Franciscus Sylvius
German physician
Matteo Colombo, oil painting by an unknown artist
Matteo Realdo Colombo
Italian physician
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William Shippen, Jr.
American educator