Medical Pioneer
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James Graham / Medical Pioneers
An early champion of vegetarianism.
James Lind / Medical Pioneers
The founder of hygiene at sea, including treatment for scurvy.
James Syme / Medical Pioneers
Responsible for setting up the General Medical Council.
John Hunter / Medical Pioneers
Founder of one of the world's largest anatomical collections.
John James Rickard MacLeod / Medical Pioneers
Remembered by grateful diabetics throughout the world as discoverer of insulin.
Lord Joseph Lister / Medical Pioneers
Founder of antiseptic medicine, believing that bacteria should never enter an operation wound.
Ronald David Laing / Medical Pioneers
Psychiatrist noted for his alternative approach to schizophrenia.
Sir Alexander Fleming / Medical Pioneers
Discoverer of penicillin, the world?s greatest antibiotic.
Sir James Young Simpson / Medical Pioneers
Physician to Queen Victoria, he helped introduce chloroform as a general anaesthetic.
Sir Robert Sibbald / Medical Pioneers
Geographer and Physician for Scotland, publishing an illustrated natural history.
William Hunter / Medical Pioneers
Surgeon who advanced the science of gynaecology through his anatomical studies.
Robert Liston / Medical Pioneers
Pioneering surgeon who demonstrated the use of ether as an anaesthetic
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