Medicine

• 460–370 BCE Hippocrates
• 130–200 Galen
• 160–210 Sextus Empiricus
• 980-1037 Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
• 1514-1564 Andreas Vesalius
• 1749-1797 Edward Jenner
• 1818-1865 Ignaz Philipp Semmelweiss
• 1822-1895 Louis Pasteur
• 1827-1912 Joseph Lister
• Alexander Fleming
• 1918-2011 Robert Ettinger

Healing arts started being written about with Hippocrates, Galen, Empiricus(?). Then came the 15th century in which Copernicus and Vesalius published their works on astronomy and anatomy, respectively, in the same year. Vesalius had stolen dead bodies to analyze how they work. Smashed many preconceptions that ancients like Galen had.

Then came the germ theory. Semmelweiss, Jenner, Lister were early figures advocating hygiene.

Then Fleming found penicillin (apocryphal story?).

Ancient debate continues to this day, between "rationalist" and "empiricist" medicine (these terms have specific meanings in the context of medicine).

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