Medical Historian
Henry E. Sigerist was born in Paris in the year 1891, April 17th in
France and continued growing up in Paris. He then studied in the
University of Zurich and oriental languages at University College and Kings
College in London. Then he went back to Zurich to complete a medical degree and
serve as a medical offcer in an Swiss army. Sigerist taught the history of medicine at the
University of Zurich until 1925, when, at the precocious age of 34, he
succeeded Sudhoff as director of the Leipzig Institute. In 1932, Sigerist moved
to the United States to succeed William Henry Welch as director of the Johns
Hopkins University Institute of the History of Medicine. Sigerist wrote a book called The Great Doctor which he
successfully published it in English, the book was widely read. He also has an
history in conflicting thoughts bout the socialized medicine and that what
drawn him to attacked the American Medical association. Sigerist became deeply
involved in medical politics and the campaign for
national health insurance and his contributions
toward medical care reform in the United States.
He
died in the year of 1957.
John
Freind was born in Croton or also know as Croughton, in the year 1679 in John's
father's hometown. John has young brother, Robert Freind.
He
choose medicine for
his profession, he early began to write on medical topics, and invariably
employed the Latin language. In 1704 he was appointed to deliver at the
Ashmolean Museum in Oxford some lectures on chemistry, which were largely
attended, and published some years later (1709). In the next year (1705) he
accompanied the Earl of Peterborough in his brilliant campaign in Spain, as
physician to the English forces, and remained there about two years. He then
visited Italy, where he became personally acquainted with Baglivi and Lancisi
and other celebrated physicians of the day, and returned to England in 1707.
Here he at once plunged into politics, and published two books in defence of
Lord Peterborough's conduct in Spain, which brought him into considerable
public notice as a keen partisan. In 1709 he married Anne, the eldest daughter
of Thomas Morice, esq., then paymaster of the forces in Portugal, who survived
him, and died in 1737. He had by her an only son, John, who died unmarried in
1750. In around the year 1720s John Freind was well known for his
discovery on vaccination for smallpox in the early sixteenth century in Europe. It was indeed
in the sixteenth century, London wasn't healthy, clean and smallpox was the
ultimate killer for most f the London's resident.
He died in 1728.
Sir William Osler was know as the Father of Modern Medicine. He was a bibliophile, author, historian and to add it all was a joker. he was born in the year 1849 on 12th of July. he was one of the four founder of John Hopkins Hospital. His great-grandfather as a pirate and his father on a ship at Falmouth, Cornwall, also was a former navy that once serve on HMS Victory. William;s mother was a religious woman. William start to give interest in medical science since 1867 and so he entered Trinity College, Toronto. His highest contribution towards medication was actually his method of insisting student to learn not just base on what they read but by interact with patient and talking to them. He was the one who create the idea of bringing student outside instead of sitting all day long in the lecture hall. h brought out the students and start to teach them some clinical training.
He died in the year 1919, 29th December.
