19th Century


Pre 19th Century:
Dr. Simon-Auguste-Andre-David Tissot (1728-1787)
Swiss professor of medicine

Dr. Leopold Deslandes MD (1796 - 1850)
French medical writer and doctor. Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine, Paris

Dr. Claude-Francois Lalleman
French surgeon, (1790 - 1853)
biography here:

Dr. William Acton (1813 - 1875)
British doctor and medical writer. Authored Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Life Considered in Their Physiological, Social, and Moral Relations. (1894)
This book had at least 8 printings

Dr. Frederick Humphreys MD (1816 - 1900)
Homeopathic doctor and founder of the New York State Homeopathic Medical Society. Writer of "Manual of Homeopathic Remedies (1930) and many other works.

Dr. Lionel Smith Beale (1828 - 1906)
Professor of physiology, King's Royal College, London. Famous for The Microscope and its Application to Clinical Medicine [1854]. Advanced medicial science in research relating to nerves, germs and becterial diseases. A pioneer in the use of the microscope for clinical pathology.

Dr. Jonathan Hutchinson (1828 - 1913)
Considered to have seen more than 1 million syphilis patients. Published more than 1,200 medical articles. Wikipedia bio here and a medical bio here

Dr. Oskar Lassar
German dermatologist

Professor Charles Edouard Brown Sequard
(1817 - 1894)
British physiologist and neurologist
Wikipedia biography here

Dr. Leopold Casper (1859-1959)
Highly regarded Berlin urologist. Founder of ureteral catheterisation and functional renal diagnostics.

Dr. Charles Marie Edouard Chassaignac
French Surgical Pioneer, wikipedia biography here

Dr. Jean Alfred Fournier(1832 - 1914)
French dermatologist, professor and medical writer, biography here


Dr. George Miller Beard (1839 - 1883)
Yale graduate who went on to become a distinguished doctor, medical writer and researcher. wikipedia biography here

Dr. Joseph William Howe (1843 - 1890)
Professor of clinical surgery at Bellevue Hospital Medical Schoo

Aguste Henri Forel (1848 - 1931)
Swiss myrmecologist, neuroanatomist and psychiatrist, notable for his investigations into the brain structure of humans and ant. Wikipedia biography here and medical biography here.

Dr. Paul Charles Dubois (1848 - 1918)
Siwss neurologist, professor, writer and pioneer of psychotherapy

Dr. Charles Arthur Mercier (1852 - 1919)
English psychiatrist and author of several books on neuroscience


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