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  • Robert Koch

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    Photograph of Robert Koch, who demonstrated the bacterial causes of many specific diseases. Koch received the Nobel Prize in 1905.
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  • Thomas Lewis

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    Photograph of Thomas Lewis, who analyzed the mechanism of the heart beat and promoted many clinical applications of cardiology.
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  • Justus von Liebig

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    Portrait of Justus von Liebig., who first classified foods on basis of chemical composition.
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  • Frans Cornelis Donders

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    Portrait of Frans Cornelis Donders, who developed physiological optics, with explorations of astigmatism, myopia, and hypermetropia.
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  • Girolamo Fabrizzi

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    Portrait of Girolamo Fabrizzi, who proposed that the valves in the veins delay blood flow.
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  • Rene Descartes

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    Portrait of Rene Descartes, who pioneered in studying reflex action, and considered the brain as an organ integrating the mind and body.
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  • Arthur Cushny

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    Portrait of Arthur Cushney, who analyzed the process of urinary secretion.
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  • Jean Francois Fernel

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    Portrait of Jean Francois Fernel, who wrote the first book devoted solely to physiology.
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  • Paul Ehrlich

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    Photograph of Paul Ehrlich, who developed special staining methods for differentiation of white blood cells.
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  • Bartolomeo Eustacchi

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    Portrait of Bartolomeo Eustacchi, for whom the Eustachian tube is named.
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  • Charles Darwin

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    Full front portrait of Charles Darwin.
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  • Claude Bernard

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    Portrait of Claude Bernard. Bernard studied many different aspects of medicine, and emphasized the interrelatedness of life functions and the importance of the body's preservation of internal stability.
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  • Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

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    Portrait of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli wearing a cap. Borelli treated physiological processes as being resultant from physical principles.
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  • William Beaumont

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    Portrait of William Beaumont. Beaumont studied human digestion and movements of the stomach in a patient with a gastric fistula.
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  • Charles Bell

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    Portrait of Charles Bell. Bell was an anatomist and surgeon who first showed the motor functions of ventral spinal nerve roots.
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  • Emil Adolf von Behring

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    Portrait of Emil Adolf von Behring, the man who discovered antitoxins.
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  • Joseph Black

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    Portrait of Joseph Black. Black isolated Carbon Dioxide and related it to respiration and combustion.
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  • Thomas Bartholin

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    Portrait of Thomas Bartholin, who discovered the thoracic duct in mammals.
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  • Paul Bert

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    Portrait of Paul Bert, who related oxygen tension to physiology.
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  • Marie Francois Xavier Bichat

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    Portrait of Bichat, who studied the role of tissue organization in healthy and diseased structures.
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