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Soranus Of Ephesus: Quick Facts

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Flourished 101 - 200
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Diocles
Greek philosopher and physician
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Katharina Dalton
British gynecologist
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska
Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska
American physician
Portrait of a white woman beside a close-up of an IVF embryo with a micropipette and an arrow; she holds a LIFE magazine cover titled 'Test-Tube Baby Boom'.
Patrick Steptoe
British gynecologist
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Hippocrates
Hippocrates
Greek physician
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Mildred Stahlman holding an infant in Vanderbilt's NICU, black and white photo
Mildred T. Stahlman
American neonatologist
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
German-Swiss physician
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
Hawa Abdi, 2013
Hawa Abdi
Somalian physician, lawyer, and activist
Mary Putnam Jacobi
Mary Putnam Jacobi
American physician
anesthesia
Gertie F. Marx
American physician
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Rebecca Lee Dorsey
American physician
Joycelyn Elders
Joycelyn Elders
American physician and government official
Mukwege, Denis
Denis Mukwege
Congolese physician