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Also Known As Li Shijen • Li Shih-chen
Born 1518 • China
Died 1593 (aged 75)
Subjects Of Study medicine • traditional Chinese medicine
Wang Shuhe
Chinese physician
Zhang Zhongjing
Zhang Zhongjing
Chinese physician
The Canon of Medicine
Avicenna
Persian philosopher and scientist
Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Claude Bernard, detail of a lithograph by A. Laemlein, 1858
Claude Bernard
French scientist
Galen of Pergamum
Galen
Greek physician
Paracelsus
Paracelsus
German-Swiss physician
Hippocrates
Hippocrates
Greek physician
Georgius Agricola.
Georgius Agricola
German scholar and scientist
Conrad Gesner.
Conrad Gesner
Swiss physician and naturalist
George Wells Beadle.
George Wells Beadle
American geneticist
Benjamin Spock
Benjamin Spock
American pediatrician
al-Rāzī
Persian physician
Diocles
Greek philosopher and physician
Jean Cruveilhier
French pathologist
Mondino De’ Luzzi
Italian physician
George Engelmann
German botanist and physician
Soranus Of Ephesus
Greek physician
Guy de Chauliac
French physician
Caelius Aurelianus
Greco-Roman physician