Biography Category
(kr s lôr´ s) (KEY) , c.1350–1415, Greek teacher and writer, b. Constantinople. Traveling to Italy on a diplomatic mission, he became celebrated f...
1714–88, English surgeon at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. He described a fracture of the ankle subsequently known by his name and a deformity of the...
1578–1657, English physician considered by many to have laid the foundation of modern medicine, b. Folkestone, studied at Cambridge, M.D. Univ. of P...
1892–1987, American physician, b. Stoughton, Wis., M.D. Harvard, 1920. He taught at Harvard from 1923 and was associated with the Peter Bent Brigham...
(py r f shär´) (KEY) , 1678–1761, French dentist, a founder of modern dentistry. He practiced in Paris from c.1715 and was influential in raising ...
( ´sl r) (KEY) , 1849–1919, Canadian physician, M.D. McGill Univ., 1872. Renowned as a physician and as a medical historian, he was also the most b...