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James Young Simpson
male, deceased - Sir James Young Simpson, (June 7, 1811 born in Bathgate, West Lothian, died at his home in Edinburgh, May 6, 1870), was a Scottish doctor and...
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Horace Wells
male, deceased - Horace Wells was an American dentist who pioneered the use of anaesthesia in dentistry, specifically nitrous oxide (or laughing gas). Born in...
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Samuel Guthrie
male, deceased - Samuel Guthrie (1782 - 1848), was a U.S. physician. He invented a form of percussion powder and also the punch lock for igniting it, which made the...
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Henry Hill Hickman
male, deceased - Henry Hill Hickman (January 27, 1800 - April 2, 1830) was born to tenant farmers at Lady Halton, (near Bromfield, Shropshire). He began his medical...
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Benjamin Ward Richardson
male, deceased - Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson was an eminent British physician, anaesthetist, physiologist, sanitarian, and a prolific writer on medical history. He...
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Eugène Soubeiran
male, deceased - Eugène Soubeiran was a renowned French scientist who served as chief pharmacist at the Pitié-Salpêtriè
re Hospital. He was one of three rese...
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Ruth Snyder
female, deceased - Ruth Brown Snyder (1895 - January 12, 1928) was an American murderer. She was executed for the murder of her husband, Albert. She was executed by...
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William Marsh Rice
male, deceased - William Marsh Rice (March 14, 1816 - September 23, 1900) was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. He made his fortune in Texas by trading cotton,...
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Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie Velpeau
male, deceased - Alfred-Armand-L
ouis-Marie Velpeau was a French anatomist and surgeon who was born in a village near Tours. He was a student and assistant to Pierre...
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James McIlroy
male, deceased - James McIlroy, full name James Archibald McIlroy (March 11, 1879 - July 30 1968) was a British surgeon and a member of Ernest Shackleton's crew on...
