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Born March 15, 1813 • York • England
Died June 16, 1858 (aged 45) • London • England
Subjects Of Study cholera

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John Snow
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William Farr
British physician
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Archibald Leman Cochrane
British physician
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William Budd
English physician
Robert Koch
Robert Koch
German bacteriologist
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Peter Piot
Belgian microbiologist
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Ernest Amory Codman
American surgeon
anesthesia
Gertie F. Marx
American physician
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Dorry Segev
Israeli-born surgeon
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Nathan Wolfe
American virologist and epidemiologist
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Henry Knowles Beecher
American anesthesiologist and researcher
Virginia Apgar.
Virginia Apgar
American physician
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Carlos J. Finlay
Cuban physician
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Giovanni Maria Lancisi
Italian physician
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Thomas Sydenham
British physician
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Guillaume de Baillou
French physician
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French physician
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Katharina Dalton
British gynecologist
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David Bruce
British physician
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Alexander Monro, tertius
Scottish physician, anatomist, and educator
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Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist