Physicians of Antiquity, the Medieval World and the Renaissance

From 1611 to 1614 he studied medicine in Leiden and returned to Amsterdam where he became a well-respected doctor.

He then began to study medicine, obtaining his Medicinae Doctor on 1 March 1524.

authored the first pharmacopoeia North of the Alps

widely read by physicians in late medieval Europe

He was the rector of the University of Prague and official medical doctor to the Holy Roman Emperors

was a German physician, botanist, and traveller

He originally intended to become a teacher, but studied medicine instead for three years at the universities of Leipzig, Jena, and Frankfurt an der Oder.

A doctor of medicine at Montpellier, Champier was the personal physician of Antoine, Duke of Lorraine

before taking his doctorate at the University of Bologna in 1562

was a physician, philosopher, historian, Arabic grammarian and traveller

was a French physician and numismatist

was a physician of Lugdunum

Martin Ruland the Younger (11 November 1569-23 April 1611), also known as Martinus Rulandus or Martin Rulandt, was a German physician and alchemist.

Martin Ruland the Elder (1532, in Freising, 3 February 1602), also known as Martinus Rulandus or Martin Rulandt, was a German physician, alchemist and classical philologist.

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was a Polish-Jewish physician of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

was a physician and an author of the German Renaissance

one of the most influential authors in the classical Ayurvedic tradition

was a French royal physician, teacher, and poet

He practiced medicine in Vienna, and published numerous almanachs, planetary tables and calendars.

He is known as a physician who edited the medical treatise entitled Charaka Samhita, one of the foundational texts of classical Indian medicine and Ayurveda, included under Brhat-Trayi.

Girolamo Fracastoro (Latin: Hieronymus Fracastorius; c. 1476/8-6 August 1553) was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy.

Hippocrates of Kos (; Ancient Greek: Ἱπποκράτης ὁ Κῷος, romanized: Hippokrátēs ho Kôios; c. 460, c. 370 BC), also known as Hippocrates II, named after his grandfather Hippocrates I (also Hippocrates of Kos or Hippocrates I of Kos) was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period who is considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine.

Ibn Sina (c. 980-22 June 1037), commonly known in the West as Avicenna, was a preeminent philosopher and physician of the Muslim world.

Peseshet, who lived under the Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (albeit a date in the Fifth Dynasty is also possible), is often credited with being the earliest known female physician in history.

Zhang Zhongjing (Chinese: 張仲景; 150-219), formal name Zhang Ji (張機), was a Chinese pharmacologist, physician, inventor, and writer of the Eastern Han dynasty and one of the most eminent Chinese physicians during the later years of the Han dynasty.

Trota of Salerno (also spelled Trocta), often called Trotula, was a medical practitioner and writer in the southern Italian coastal town of Salerno who lived in the early or middle decades of the 12th century. She was one of a group of women physicians who studied in medieval Italy at the Schola Medica Salernitana, the first medical schools to allow women in Europe.