Gazi Yasargil (1925) microneurosurgery

Peter Safar (1924-2003) cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Daniel Bovet (1907-1992)

Ernst Gräfenberg (1881-1957) discovered the G-spot

William Osler (1849-1919) is called the "father of modern medicine"

William Macewen (1848-1924)

Daniel David Palmer (1845-1913) was the founder of chiropractic medicine

Joseph Lister (1827-1912)

Sebastian Kneipp (1821-1897)

William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868)

Emil du Bois-Reymond (1818-1896)

Johannes Peter Müller (1801-1858)

Marie-Jean-Pierre Flourens (1794-1867)

René Laennec (1781-1826) invented of the stethoscope

Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) creator of homoepathy

Edward Jenner (1749-1823)

James Lind (1716-1794) discovered that citrus fruit is the only effective cure for scurvy

Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694)

Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680)

William Harvey (1578-1657) in his Essay on the Motion of the Heart and

the Blood, proposes that the heart is a muscle that pumps blood throughout the body

Matteo Realdo Colombo (1516-1559) claimed that he was the discoverer of the clitoris

Valerius Cordus (1515-544)

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) author of the first complete

collection of books on human anatomy, De Humanis Corporis Fabrica

Ambroise Paré (1510-1590)

Paracelsus (1493-1541) the father of toxicology, wrote: "the dose makes the poison"

Guy de Chauliac (1300-1368)

Mondino de Liuzzi (1275-1326) was an Italian surgeon, oversaw the first public, systematic dissection of a corpse in 1315

Hugh and Theodoric of Lucca (13th century) are noted for their use of wine as an antiseptic

Avicenna (980-1037)

Abu Bakr al Razi (854-925)

Galen (129-210)

Pedanius Dioscorides (40-90) is famous for writing a five volume book

"De Materia Medica" that is a precursor to all modern pharmacopeias

Asclepiades of Bithynia (129-40 bc)

Herophilus (335-280 bc)

Alcmaeon of Croton (mid-fifth century bc)

Hippocrates of Cos (460-380 bc) the father of medicine

Empedocles (492-432 bc)

Imhotep (2700 bc)