* 1986 – Alicia Moreau de Justo, Argentine physician, politician, and activist ( b. 1885 )

The son of physician and anatomy lecturer Justo Ramón and Antonia Cajal, Ramón y Cajal was born of Aragonese parents in Petilla de Aragón in Navarre, Spain.

Chagas named the pathogenic parasite as Trypanosoma cruzi and later that year as Schizotrypanum cruzi, both honoring Oswaldo Cruz, the noted Brazilian physician and epidemiologist who successfully fought epidemics of yellow fever, smallpox, and bubonic plague in Rio de Janeiro and other cities in the beginning of the 20th century.

In Argentina, the disease is known as mal de Chagas-Mazza, in honor of Salvador Mazza, the Argentine physician who in 1926 began investigating the disease and over the years became the principal researcher of this disease in the country.

She was the daughter of Tommaso di Benvenuto da Pizzano ( Thomas de Pizan ; named for the family's origins in the town of Pizzano, south east of Bologna ), a physician, court astrologer, and Councillor of the Republic of Venice.

Following her birth, Thomas de Pizan accepted an appointment to the court of Charles V of France, as the king ’ s astrologer, alchemist, and physician.

The documentary also noted that Holt was suffering a shoulder injury and had been advised by his physician Marcus de Laune Faunce not to play tennis or swim-advice that Holt ignored on both counts.

* 1641 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist ( d. 1673 )

Direct tracings of the vibrations of sound-producing objects such as tuning forks had been made by English physician Thomas Young in 1807, but the first known device for recording airborne speech, music and other sounds is the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by French typesetter and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

In addition, Rudolf II employed his polyglot court physician, Anselmus Boetius de Boodt ( c. 1550 – 1632 ), to curate the collection.

* 1908 – Josué de Castro, Brazilian physician, geographer, and activist ( d. 1973 )

Soon after publication, Vesalius was invited as Imperial physician to the court of Emperor Charles V. He informed the Venetian Senate that he was leaving his post in Padua, which prompted Duke Cosimo I de ' Medici to invite him to move to the expanding university in Pisa, which he turned down.

* September 24 – Josué de Castro, Brazilian writer, physician, geographer and activist against hunger ( b. 1908 )

** Garcia de Orta, Portuguese Jewish physician ( b. 1501 )

* December 14 or 21 – Michel de Nostredame, called Nostradamus, French physician and writer of Les Propheties ( 1555 ) ( d. 1566 )

** Anselmus de Boodt, Belgian mineralogist and physician ( d. 1632 )

* Physician Aleixo de Abreu is granted a pension of 16, 000 reis for services to the crown in Angola and Brazil by Philip III of Spain, who also appoints him physician of his chamber.

* March 3 – Matthias de Lobel, physician of James I ( b. 1538 )

* July 30 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist ( d. 1673 )

A treatment by the famous physician Guy de Chauliac had no positive effects.

* August 17 – Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist ( b. 1641 )

** Garcia de Orta, Portuguese physician ( d. 1568 )

* Mondino de Liuzzi, Italian physician and anatomist ( d. 1326 )

In his Histoire Naturelle ( 1749 ), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, wrote of the " Black Cougar ": " M. de la Borde, King ’ s physician at Cayenne, informs me, that in the American Continent there are three species of rapacious animals ; that the first is the jaguar, which is called the tiger ; that the second is the couguar, called the red tiger, on account of the uniform redness of his hair ; that the jaguar is of the size of a large bull-dog, and weighs about 200 pounds ; that the cougar is smaller, less dangerous, and not so frequent in the neighbourhood of Cayenne as the jaguar ; and that both these animals take six years in acquiring their full growth.

In 1803, the king, convinced of the benefits of the vaccine, ordered his personal physician Francis Xavier de Balmis, to deliver it to the Spanish dominions in North and South America.

Judah Leon Abravanel ( or Abrabanel, otherwise known as: in Latin, Leo Hebraeus ; in Portuguese, Leão Hebreu ; in Spanish, León Hebreo ; in Italian, Leone Ebreo ; in English, Leo the Hebrew ; and in Hebrew, יהודה בן יצחק אברבנאל ben Yitzhak Abravanel ) ( c. 1465 Lisbon-c. 1523 Naples ) was a Jewish Portuguese physician, poet and philosopher.

Dr. John Pearson Rowe ( 1810 – 1878 ) was a physician and squatter who owned the ' Loyola Run ' ( also known as Mount Battery ) near Mansfield.

The Early Church Fathers wrote that Luke was a physician in Antioch and an adherent of the Apostle Paul.

As early as September 1942, Dr. Johann Paul Kremer, M. D., an SS physician, witnessed a gassing of prisoners, and in his diary wrote: " They don't call Auschwitz the camp of annihilation Lager der Vernichtung for nothing!

Galen saw himself as both a physician and a philosopher, as he wrote in his treatise entitled That the Best Physician is also a Philosopher.

Soranus wrote that Hippocrates ' father was Heraclides, a physician, and his mother was Praxitela, daughter of Tizane.

Luke, who wrote the Gospel of Luke, was a physician who lived around AD 30 to 130 ( exact years are not known ), and he also wrote the Book of Acts in the Bible.

Now known primarily for his Emblemata, Junius moved to Haarlem in 1550, and wrote several books, acting shortly as the rector of the Latin School there, as the city physician and as historiographer of the States of Holland ( as of 1565 / 66 ).

In 1985, Singer wrote a book with the physician Deanne Wells arguing that surrogate motherhood should be allowed and regulated by the state by establishing non-profit ' State Surrogacy Boards ', which would ensure fairness between surrogate mothers and surrogacy-seeking parents.

In October 1805 John Adams wrote to his friend Benjamin Waterhouse, an American physician and scientist:

In August 1891, British physician Sir Morell Mackenzie wrote an article in the 19th century influential magazines Fortnightly Review to establish England as the originating country for the Tom Collins cocktail and a person named John Collins as its creator.

Rashīd al-Dīn Fadhl-allāh Hamadānī ( 1247 – 1318 ), was a Persian physician of Jewish origin, polymathic writer and historian, who wrote an enormous Islamic history, the Jami al-Tawarikh, in the Persian language, often considered a landmark in intercultural historiography and a key document on the Ilkhanids ( 13th and 14th century ).

The king's physician and aide, Carl Gustav Carus, wrote in his journal:

Abulcasis ( Abu al-Qasim Khalaf ibn al-Abbas Al-Zahrawi ), an Andalusian-Arab physician and scientist who practised in the Zahra suburb of Córdoba, wrote medical texts that shaped European surgical procedures up until the Renaissance.

In the 17th century the English physician Sir Thomas Browne wrote a short tract upon the interpretation of dreams.

The physician and judge known as Song Ci ( 1186 – 1249 ) wrote a pioneering work of forensic science on the examination of corpses in order to determine cause of death ( strangulation, poisoning, drowning, blows, etc.

* c. 1275 – c. 1328 Joannes Zacharias Actuarius a Byzantine physician wrote the last great compendium of Byzantine medicine

Christian Archibald Herter, an American physician, wrote a book in 1908 on children with coeliac disease, which he called " intestinal infantilism.

His physician wrote that " by the large quantity of blood lost, amounting to 170 ounces eleven pints ( 4. 8 liters ), besides that drawn by the application of leeches another two pints ( 1. 1 liters ), the life of the patient was preserved ".

Diego Álvarez Chanca, a physician on Columbus ' second voyage to the West Indies in 1493, brought the first chili peppers to Spain, and first wrote about their medicinal effects in 1494.

Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome is named after Rupert Waterhouse ( 1873 – 1958 ), an English physician, and Carl Friderichsen ( 1886 – 1979 ), a Danish pediatrician, who wrote papers on the syndrome, which had been previously described.

The leaves and bark of the willow tree have been mentioned in ancient texts from Assyria, Sumer and Egypt as a remedy for aches and fever, and the Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates wrote about its medicinal properties in the fifth century BC.

His work was criticized by several Scandinavian authors, including the Danish professor Ludvig Holberg, and the Swedish author and physician Andreas Kempe, both of whom wrote satires based on Rudbeck's writings.

He edited 40 anthologies of science fiction, one of mystery stories ( co-edited with physician Noah Fabricant ), wrote books on home improvement and was a freelance writer on scientific subjects as well as a published poet.