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Admiral Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757-1833) British naval officer who served in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the Napoleonic Wars
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Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) Swiss anatomist, physiologist, and poet often referred to as the ‘Father of modern physiology’
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Ambroise Paré (c.1510 -1590) French barber surgeon who served four French kings and is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology
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Andrew Boorde (c1490-1549) English traveller, physician and writer
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Charles Patin (1633-1693) a French physician and numismatist, son of Guy Patin, dean of the school of medicine in Paris, and a friend of Jacob Spon
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David Livingstone (1813-1873) Scottish physician, pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa
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David Macbeth Moir (1798-1851) Scottish physician and writer from Musselburgh who was a regular contributor to Blackwood’s Magazine in Edinburgh
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Dr. John Armstrong (1709-1779) Physician, poet and satirist, the son of the minister of Castleton, Roxburghshire
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Dr. John Armstrong (1709-1779) Physician, poet and satirist, the son of the minister of Castleton, Roxburghshire
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Edward Jenner (1749 -1823) English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world’s first vaccine
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Erasmus Robert Darwin FRS (1731-1802) English physician, inventor, poet, one of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment and Grandfather of Charles Darwin
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George Crabbe (1754-1832) English poet, surgeon and clergyman and author of the narrative poem Peter Grimes
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Gideon Harvey M.D. (c1636-1702)
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Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575) also known as Adriaen de Jonghe, was a Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicographer, antiquarian, historiographer and Latin poet
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Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) German poet, philosopher, physician, historian and playwright
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John Abernethy (1764-1831) English surgeon
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John Bulwer, English Physician (1606-1656)
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John Coakley Lettsom (1744-1815) English physician, philanthropist, Quaker and abolitionist, born in the British Virgin Islands, the son of a West Indian planter and an Irish mother
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John Dollond FRS (1706-1761) English optician and inventor of the achromatic telescope
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John Gregory MD (1724–1773) Scottish physician and medical writer
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John Hall, English Surgeon
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John Heaviside (1748-1828) surgeon to George III, collector and anatomical museum proprietor
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John Hunter FRS (1728-1793) Scottish surgeon and anatomist
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John Hunter FRS (1728-1793) Scottish surgeon and anatomist
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John Hunter FRS (1728-1793) Scottish surgeon and anatomist
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John Hunter MD (1728–1793) Scottish surgeon
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John Locke FRS (1632-1704) English philosopher and physician commonly known as the ‘Father of Liberalism’
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John Locke FRS (1632-1704) English philosopher and physician commonly known as the ‘Father of Liberalism’
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John Locke FRS (1632-1704) English philosopher and physician commonly known as the ‘Father of Liberalism’
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John Locke FRS (1632-1704) English philosopher and physician commonly known as the ‘Father of Liberalism’
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John Radcliffe (1650-1714) was an English physician, academic, politician and the benefactor of a number of landmark buildings in Oxford including the Radcliffe Camera
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Joseph Black MD (1728-1799) Scottish physician and chemist
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Joseph Black MD (1728-1799) Scottish physician and chemist
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Joshua Brookes (1761-1833) British anatomist and naturalist
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Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian scholar and physician (1484-1558)
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Louis de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (1621-1686) known as the Great Condé for his military exploits, was a one of Louis XIV’s most pre-eminent generals
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Mark Akenside (1721-1770) English poet and physician
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Mark Akenside (1721-1770) English poet and physician
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Michael Servetus (c1509-1553) Spanish theologian, physician, cartographer and Renaissance humanist
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Prof James Miller (1812-1864) surgeon in Edinburgh and author of the important 19th century textbook, Principles of Surgery
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Robert Macnish (1802-1837) Scottish surgeon physician, philosopher and writer
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Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783-1862) English physiologist and surgeon who pioneered research into bone and joint disease
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Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet (1783-1862) English physiologist and surgeon who pioneered research into bone and joint disease
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Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) Anglo-Irish physician whose collection founded the British Museum
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Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English mathematician, astronomer, theologian and physicist
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Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English mathematician, astronomer, theologian and physicist
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Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English mathematician, astronomer, theologian and physicist
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Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832) Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian
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Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832) Scottish jurist, Whig politician and historian
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Sir Samuel Garth (1661-1719) English physician,poet and author of the mock-heroic poem ‘The Dipensary’
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Sir Samuel Garth FRS (1661-1719) English physician and poet
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The Abbé Charles-Michel de l’Épée (1712-1789) philanthropic educator of 18th-century France, known as the ‘Father of the Deaf’
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Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) English biologist specialising in comparative anatomy
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Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) English physician and medical author known as ‘The English Hippocrates’
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Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689) English physician and medical author known as ‘The English Hippocrates’
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Thomas Willis (1621-1675) English doctor and founding member of the Royal Society who was prominent in the history of anatomy, neurology and psychiatry
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Thomas Young (1773-1829) English polymath and physician described as “The Last Man Who Knew Everything”
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William Bullein (c1515-1576) English physician and cleric
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William Bulleyn, Physician d.1576
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William Cullen MD (1710–1790) Scottish physician, chemist and agriculturalist
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William Dunlop (1792-1848) Scottish military surgeon and soldier who spent time in India and Canada, which resulted in his book ‘Statistical Sketches of Upper Canada For the Use of Emigrants’
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William Harvey (1578-1657) physician who first described the systemic circulation of blood by the heart
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William Harvey (1578-1657) physician who first described the systemic circulation of blood by the heart
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William Harvey (1578-1657) physician who first described the systemic circulation of blood by the heart
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William Harvey (1578-1657) physician who first described the systemic circulation of blood by the heart
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William Hunter FRS (1718–1783) Scottish anatomist and physician