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Key People

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William Worrall Mayo
American physician
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Katharina Dalton
British gynecologist
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William B. Castle
American physician
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Frank Jobe
American orthopedic surgeon
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Joseph, Freiherr von Mering
German physician
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David Bruce
British physician
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Alexander Monro, tertius
Scottish physician, anatomist, and educator
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Armauer Hansen
Norwegian physician
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Charles Horace Mayo
American physician
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Arsène d’Arsonval
French physician and physicist
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Charles William Mayo
American physician
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William James Mayo
American physician
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William Claire Menninger
American physician
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Karl Augustus Menninger
American physician
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Ferdinand von Hebra
Moravian physician
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Charles Frederick Menninger
American physician
Hermann von Helmholtz
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
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Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
William Harvey
William Harvey
English physician
Rudolf Virchow
Rudolf Virchow
German pathologist and statesman

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