John Snow

John Snow

male, deceased (1858)
buried at Brompton Cemetery, Westminster, England, City of Westminster, From York, anaesthesia, Information graphic designer
John Snow (16 March 1813 - 16 June 1858) was a British physician and a leader in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene, and is considered...
Horace Wells

Horace Wells

male, deceased (1848)
circus, pain, dentist, American, chloroform, laughing gas…anaesthesia
Horace Wells was an American dentist who pioneered the use of anaesthesia in dentistry, specifically nitrous oxide (or laughing gas). Born in...
Robert Liston

Robert Liston

male, deceased (1847)
university of edinburgh, University College, inventor, surgeon, west lothian, Edinburgh University…anaesthesia
Robert Liston (28 October 1794, Ecclesmachan, West Lothian - 1847) was a pioneering Scottish surgeon. He was likely the best surgeon of his day,...
Henry Hill Hickman

Henry Hill Hickman

male, deceased (1830)
The Lancet, English, shropshire, pain, sir humphry davy, carbon dioxide…anaesthesia
Henry Hill Hickman (January 27, 1800 - April 2, 1830) was born to tenant farmers at Lady Halton, (near Bromfield, Shropshire). He began his medical...
Lina Medina

Lina Medina

female, 76 years old
pregnancy, caesarean section, abdomen, Parents, Lima, Peru, La Presse Medicale…anaesthesia
Lina Medina (born September 27 1933 in Paurange, Peru) gave birth at the age of 5 years, 7 months and 21 days and is the youngest confirmed mother...
Thomas Bartholin

Thomas Bartholin

male, deceased (1680)
anaesthesia, Medical Writer, University of Copenhagen, physician, Danish, anatomist
Thomas Bartholin (Thomas Bartolinus was a Danish physician, mathematician, and theologian. He is best known for his work in the discovery of the...

Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle

male, deceased (1941)
barbados, oxygen, nitrous oxide, anaesthesia, Anesthesiologist, Anaesthetist
Henry Edmund Gaskin Boyle (born 2 April 1875, died 15 October 1941) was a pioneering anaesthetist. Originally born in Barbados; he qualified MRCS...
Akrit Jaswal

Akrit Jaswal

male, 16 years old
chandigarh, finger, physiology, Gray's Anatomy, Surgery operation, Chandigarh University…anaesthesia
Akrit Jaswal (born 23 April 1993) is a child prodigy who has gained fame in his native India as a physician, despite never having attended medical...

Melody MacDonald

female
Animal rights movement, British, Animal rights activist, activist, animal rights, anaesthesia
Melody MacDonald is a British animal rights activist, author and lobbyist. She is the director of the Animal Cruelty Investigation Group. MacDonald...
David Gruby

David Gruby

male, deceased (1898)
Mycologist, Naturalist, hungarian, physician, microbiologist, chloroform…anaesthesia
David Gruby was an Hungarian physician who was born in the village of Kis-Kér (now Bačko Dobro Polje, Serbia). He received his doctorate in Vi...