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Facts

Born 1624 • England
Died December 29, 1689 (aged 65) • London • England
Notable Works “Observationes Medicae”
Subjects Of Study epidemic • medical history

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Sydenham, detail of an oil painting by Mary Beale, 1688; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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Baillou, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, c. 1580
Guillaume de Baillou
French physician
John Caius
John Caius
British physician
Addison, Thomas
Thomas Addison
British physician
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Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
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Peter Piot
Belgian microbiologist
John Snow
John Snow
British physician
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William Farr
British physician
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Archibald Leman Cochrane
British physician
Dr. Dorry Segev wearing glasses and a dark suit with black shirt speaks on stage, gesturing with both hands.
Dorry Segev
Israeli-born surgeon
Nathan Wolfe, 2008.
Nathan Wolfe
American virologist and epidemiologist
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William Stokes
Irish physician
Fracastoro, engraving
Girolamo Fracastoro
Italian physician
Carlos J. Finlay
Carlos J. Finlay
Cuban physician
Lancisi, miniature by an unknown artist
Giovanni Maria Lancisi
Italian physician
Ibn Zuhr
Ibn Zuhr
Spanish Muslim physician
Schönlein, c. 1860
Johann Lukas Schönlein
German physician
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Pierre-Fidèle Bretonneau
French physician
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William Worrall Mayo
American physician
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Joseph Lister
Joseph Lister
British surgeon and medical scientist