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Educational health posters and charts of notable individuals in the field of health care such as Antonia Novello, Louis Pasteur, Ellen Swallow Richards, Charles Drew, Mother Teresa, Maria Montessori, Carl Gustav Jung, Jonas Salk, Hippocrates, St Luke, Galen, Aesculapius, Avicenna, Averroes, Dioscorides, Maimonides, Paracelsus, Celsus.

Charles Drew
b. 6-3-1904, Washington, DC
d. 4-1-1950

Charles Drew was a medical researcher in the field of blood transfusions. His techniques of separating and storing blood components, such as blood plasma, were applied to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II. Dr. Drew also protested the racial segregation of donated blood since blood can be safely transfused from one person to another regardless of ethnicity if the blood types are compatible.

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Gertrude Elion
b. 1-23-1918, NYC
d. 2-21-1999, Chapel Hill, NC

Gertrude Elion, biochemist, was awarded the 1988 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1988 with James W. Black and George H. Hitchings "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment".

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Antonia Novello, MD
b. 8-23-1944; Puerto Rico

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Ellen Richards was a chemist and is consided a founder of the science of ecology.
b. 12-3-1842; Dunstable, MA
d. 3-30-1911

Poster Text: "The quality of life depends upon the ability of society to teach its members how to live in harmony with their environment – defined first as family, then the community, then the world and its resources." Ellen S. Richards

Among the first women to formally work as a scientist, Ellen Swallow Richards profoundly impacted people's daily lives. A pioneer in the field of sanitary engineering, she also applied scientific principles to domestic life in creating the field of home economics.

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Jonas Salk
b. 10-28-1914; NYC
d. 6-23-1995; La Jolla, CA

“To a scientist fame is neither an end nor a means to an end.”

Dr. Salk was a biologist and physician best known for the research and development of the first effective polio vaccine.

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Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, Global PathMarker Fine Art Print

“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
Carl Gustav Jung

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Dr. Maria Montessori, Global PathMarker Fine Art Print

“Within the child lies
the fate of the future.”
Maria Montessori

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“Unless life is lived for others,
it is not worthwhile.”
Mother Teresa

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Asclepius (Latin: Aesculapius), the son of Greek god Apollo, was the god of medicine and the father of Hygieia, the goddess of sanitation & disease prevention; Meditrina, goddess of longevity; Iaso, the goddess of recuperation; Aceso, goddess of recovery; Aglæa/Ægle, goddess of charity/natural beauty; and Panacea, goddess of all cures.

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Pedanius Dioscorides, ca. 40-90, ancient Greek physician, pharmacologist and botanist from Asia Minor, practiced in ancient Rome at the time of Nero.

Dioscorides searched extensively for medicinal substances and is famous for writing a five volume book De Materia Medica that is a precursor to all modern pharmacopeias, one of the most influential herbal books in history.

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Hippocrates
c. 460 BC - 370 BC.; Greece

Hippocratic Oath:

I swear by Apollo, Asclepius, Hygieia, and Panacea, and I take to witness all the gods, all the goddesses, to keep according to my ability and my judgment, the following Oath.

To consider dear to me, as my parents, him who taught me this art; to live in common with him and, if necessary, to share my goods with him; To look upon his children as my own brothers, to teach them this art.

I will prescribe regimens for the good of my patients according to my ability and my judgment and never do harm to anyone.

To please no one will I prescribe a deadly drug nor give advice which may cause his death.

Nor will I give a woman a pessary to procure abortion.

But I will preserve the purity of my life and my arts.

I will not cut for stone, even for patients in whom the disease is manifest; I will leave this operation to be performed by practitioners, specialists in this art.

In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients, keeping myself far from all intentional ill-doing and all seduction and especially from the pleasures of love with women or with men, be they free or slaves.

All that may come to my knowledge in the exercise of my profession or in daily commerce with men, which ought not to be spread abroad, I will keep secret and will never reveal.

If I keep this oath faithfully, may I enjoy my life and practice my art, respected by all men and in all times; but if I swerve from it or violate it, may the reverse be my lot.

Luke the Evangelist
b. ?; Antioch, Turkey
d. c.84; Boeotia, Greece

Luke the Evangelist, an early Christian leader, is the Patron Saint of Physicians. He is considered to have written both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.

Pythagoras
b. c. 569 BC; Greece
d. c. 475 BC

Pythagoras was a philosopher who believed that numbers were the ultimate reality and everything could be predicted and measured in rhythmic patterns or cycles described through mathematics, including music.

Celsus
b. c. 25 BC; Roman
d. c. 50

Aulus Cornelius Celsus is often considered a physician; he certainly is someone who is remembered for his scholarly comprehensive written compendium, De Medicina, on diet, pharmacy, surgery and related fields.

Galen
b. c. 129 AD; Pergamon
d. c. 200 AD; Rome

Ancient Greek physician Galen dominated Western medicine for more than a thousand years. He was particularly noted for his anatomy knowledge - though the Romans forbade dissection of human corpses, the wounds of the gladiators sufficed in giving the opportunity to explore how the body was put together - Galen said wounds "were the windows into the body."

Averroes (1126-98) in Conversation with Porphyry (c.232-c.305) Giclee Print

Averroes
b. 1126; Cordoba, Spain
d. 12-10-1198; Marrakesh, Morocco

Averroes, known as Ibn Rushd, was an Andalusian-Arab polymath and master of philosophy, theology, Maliki law and jurispudence, astronomy, geography, mathematics, medicine, physics, psychology and science.

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Page from the 'Canon of Medicine' by Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (980-1037), Giclee Print

Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
b. c. 980; present day Uzbekistan
d. c. 1037; Iran

Persian Ibn Sina was a the foremost physician of his time and is considered a father of early modern medicine as well as "the most famous scientist of . . . all races, places, and times."

Known as Avicenna in the West, he was a polymath - learned in astronomy, chemistry, Hafiz (completely memorized the Quran), logic, mathematics, poetry, philosophy, psychology, physics, science, theology, a Sheikh (elder), soldier, and statesman.

Page from the Mishneh Torah systematic code of Jewish law written by Maimonides, Giclee Print

Maimonides
b. 3-30-1135; Cordoba, Spain
d. 12-13-1204; Egypt

Moses Maimonides, a rabbi and philosopher, is also considered one of the greatest physicians of his time, writing a number of medical texts.

Oath of Maimonides: The eternal providence has appointed me to watch over the life and health of Thy creatures. May the love for my art actuate me at all time; may neither avarice nor miserliness, nor thirst for glory or for a great reputation engage my mind; for the enemies of truth and philanthropy could easily deceive me and make me forgetful of my lofty aim of doing good to Thy children.

May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain.

Grant me the strength, time and opportunity always to correct what I have acquired, always to extend its domain; for knowledge is immense and the spirit of man can extend indefinitely to enrich itself daily with new requirements.

Today he can discover his errors of yesterday and tomorrow he can obtain a new light on what he thinks himself sure of today. Oh, God, Thou has appointed me to watch over the life and death of Thy creatures; here am I ready for my vocation and now I turn unto my calling.

Andreas Vesalius, Giclee Print

Andreas Vesalius
b. 12-31-1514; Brussels
d. 10-15-1564; Island of Zakynthos- on a pilgrimage to the Holy Lands

Andreas Vesalius was an innovative Early Renaissance anatomist and teacher who carried out dissection himself with students present, and kept meticulous drawings, rather than relying on the work of Galen.

Sickbed with a pox victim, illustration from a medical treatise by Paracelsus (1493-1541) pub. 1553, Giclee Print

Paracelsus, nee Phillip von Hohenheim
b. 11-11-1493; Switzerland
d. 9-24-1541; Austria - burned at the stake as a witch

Paracelsus, a medieval physician who offended everyone with his arrogance, was the name chosen by Phillip von Hohenheim later Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim as a title to mean 'equal to or greater than Celsus. Paracelsus, who embraced Hermeticism, a set of philosophical and religious beliefs attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and associated with magic which could be described as the manipulation of the material world, was also an alchemist and astrologer.

Fellow Swiss Carl Gustav Jung wrote about Paracelsus in "The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature.