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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.
Maimonides quote:
• “No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.”
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Dr. Charles H. Mayo
b. 7-19-1865; Minnesota
d. 5-26-1939; Chicago
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Friedrich Anton Mesmer
b. 5-23-1734; Swabia
d. 3-15-1815
Friedrich Anton Mesmer, the Austrian Physician and Founder of Mesmerism.
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Paracelsus, née 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.
Paracelsus quotes:
• “Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.”
• “Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.”
• “Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.”
• “We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.”
• “Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.”
Fellow Swiss Carl Gustav Jung wrote about Paracelsus in "The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature.
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Ivan Petrovich Pavlov
b. 9-14-1849; Russia
d. 2-27-1936; Leningrad
Ivan Pavlov was a physician, physiologist and experimental psychologist. Pavlov, awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for research on the digestive system, is best remembered for being the first to describe “classical conditioning” learning that involved the the salivary glands of dogs.
Pavlov quotes:
• “It is clear to all that the animal organism is a highly complex system consisting of an almost infinite series of parts connected both with one another and, as a total complex, with the surrounding world, with which it is in a state of equilibrium.”
• “It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.”
• Ivan Pavlov: Exploring the Animal Machine
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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.
Pythagoras quotes:
• “As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.”
• “There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”
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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.
Vesalius quote:
• “Adam sons do not lack a rib, therefore Eva must have originated from somewhere else.”
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Dr. Sun Yat-sen
b. 11-12-1866; Xiangshan, China
d. 3-12-1925; Beijing
Sun Yat-sen, who is considered the “Father of Modern China”, quit his medical practice to lead the collapse of the Qing Dynasty (1911) and as the first provisional president of the Republic of China. He held Abraham Lincoln in great reverence and said the Gettysburg Address was the inspiration for his Three Principles of the People.
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