Augustus Fendler (1813-1883), Professional Plant Collector: Selected Correspondence with George Engelmann

James Marion Sims (1813-1883)

James Marion Sims [5] developed a surgical cure for ruptures of the wall separating the bladder from the vagina [6] during labor, ruptures called vesico-vaginal fistulas, and he developed techniques and tools used to improve reproductive examinations and health care for women in the US during the nineteenth century. Sims's lateral examination position allowed doctors to better see the vaginal c...

George Nicholas Papanicolaou (1883?1962)

Papanicolaou was born 13 May 1883 in the city of Kymi on the island of Euboea in Greece. He was the third son of Maria Georgiou and Nikolas Papanicolaou. His father was a doctor and mayor of Kymi. In his youth, Papanicolaou studied literature, philosophy, foreign languages, and he played the violin. After high school in Athens, Greece, he studied medicine at the University of Athens in Athens. ...

George Papanicolaou (1883-1962): Discoverer of the Pap smear.

George Hubbard-seismic Data and Correspondence

George Owen Rees, MD, FRS (1813-89): pioneer of medical chemistry.

The practical utility of chemistry in medicine was already beginning to be recognized by some physicians in the second half of the eighteenth century, and in 1770 the United Hospitals (St Thomas's and Guy's) established in London a joint medical school in which Guy's was to provide instruction in the so-called "collateral sciences"-botany, physiology, natural philosophy (i.e. physics), and chem...