Hildegard of Bingen
1098 – 1179 · Germany · Medicine, Literature
Abbess, composer, and author of the first known European medical texts by a woman.
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Inherited from1
- Galen of Pergamon
129 – 216 · Medicine, Philosophy
Humoral physiology is the frame of her Causae et Curae.
Passed the work to1
- Rudolf Steiner
1861 – 1925 · Integrative Medicine, Philosophy
Monastic herbal medicine is an acknowledged root of the anthroposophic pharmacy.
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Imhotep
2650 BCE – 2600 BCEArchitect of the first pyramid and the earliest named physician in history.
Galen of Pergamon
129 – 216Physician to gladiators and emperors whose anatomy ruled medicine for 1,400 years.
Zhang Zhongjing
150 – 219Treatise on Cold Damage remains a foundation of Chinese medicine.