Military, Public Health and Reform Surgeons

In 1824, he went to Greece to serve as a surgeon in the Greek War of Independence.

He has tried to reform the National Health Service (NHS) in England

French surgeon and soldier

was a French anatomist and military surgeon

pioneer of naval hygiene in the Royal Navy

He specialised in military surgery

a Swiss surgeon with special merit in the area of military medicine

was an Australian surgeon who was renowned for his leadership while being held prisoner by the Japanese

English surgeon and pro-vivisection campaigner

German military surgeon and explorer

was a surgeon in the Union Army during the American Civil War

a member of the Geneva Commission for Hygiene and Health

for the regulation of the sanitary service of the army

Dr. Blue served as U.S. surgeon general from 1912 through 1920.

was a French naval surgeon, zoologist and anatomist

was a New Zealand physician, military surgeon, statesman and athlete

From August 1939, Gohrbandt was a consultant surgeon to the army

In 1849, he broached the subject of medical reform in a letter to the lord advocate

was a surgeon and United States Army general

war ein deutscher Chirurg und nach Theo Morell der zweite Leibarzt von Adolf Hitler

the acting chief of the venereal disease program in the United States Public Health Service

Marshall joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in April 1915.

He studied medicine at the naval medical school in Toulon, subsequently earning his qualifications as a naval surgeon.

he spent 25 years until the end of his life to humanize the penal system

was an American medical doctor and the 13th Surgeon General of the United States Army

In time he became an abolitionist and in 1788 published An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa.

effectively the first Surgeon General of the United States Army

During the American Civil War he worked as a surgeon at Satterlee General Hospital

was a Royal Navy surgeon and Antarctic explorer

He was chief doctor to the French army during French invasion of Egypt and Syria and the Battle of Waterloo.

entrò nell' esercito egiziano durante la conquista del Sudan

He became a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1916

He served as naval surgeon first in HMS Grampus.

he became troop physician of the SS Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler

He served as a surgeon in the Union Army during the American Civil War

1779 übernahm er die selbständige Führung der Militär-Sanitätsgeschäfte in Österreich.

wirkte als Stabsarzt in Lazienka, Pomorce und Warschau

He received his commission as medical officer 3d class in the Royal Netherlands Army in 1828.

became an assistant surgeon in the navy

Later he established a settlement for Armenian widows in Beirut and a lung sanatorium in Azounieh.

was known in Strasbourg during the war as a man who provided care and support to the wounded on both sides of the conflict

he successfully brought a typhus epidemic in a prisoner of war camp under control by delousing 10.000 Russian POWs in a few days

From 1882 to 1899 he served the military as a surgeon.

became a surgeon in the navy in 1807

He gained battle-related surgical experience during the First Schleswig War (1848), Second Schleswig War (1864), Austro-Prussian War (1866) and the Franco-Prussian War (1870/71).

was a German-born Polish military surgeon

Samwell became a surgeon in the Royal Navy

to take up a position as surgeon in charge of the military hospital at Fort Fetterman

Jean Charles Coquerel (2 December 1822-12 April 1867) was a French navy surgeon, algologist, and entomologist.

Charles Everett Koop (October 14, 1916, February 25, 2013) was an American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator who served as the 13th surgeon general of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1989.

He researched in the field of blood transfusions, developing improved techniques for blood storage, and applied his expert knowledge to developing large-scale blood banks early in World War II.

She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon and as a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors.

Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832, February 21, 1919), commonly referred to as Dr. Mary Walker, was an American abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war in the American Civil War, and surgeon.

Bethune came to international prominence first for his service as a frontline trauma surgeon supporting the Republican government during the Spanish Civil War, and later supporting the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) Eighth Route Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

William Crawford Gorgas KCMG (October 3, 1854, July 3, 1920) was a United States Army physician and 22nd Surgeon General of the U.S. Army (1914-1918). He is best known for his work in Florida, Havana and at the Panama Canal in abating the transmission of yellow fever and malaria by controlling the mosquitoes that carry these diseases, for which he used the discoveries made by the Cuban doctor Carlos J. Finlay.