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Physicians • Scientists born active died
1745, Feb 5 1760s-1819 1819, Sep 16
a Boston physician, scientist, and a military surgeon with the British Army in Nova Scotia and New York during the American Revolution. Born in Boston, Jeffries graduated from Harvard College and obtained his medical degree at the University of Aberdeen. He is best known for accompanying Jean-Pierre Blanchard on his 1785 balloon flight across the English Channel. Dr. Jeffries also played a large role in the trial for the Boston Massacre as a witness for the defense.
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John Jeffries 1745, Feb 5 1760
1819 1819, Sep 16
Richard Brookes unknown 1721 1763 unknown an English physician and author of compilations and translations on medicine, surgery, natural hi... Joseph Warren 1741, Jun 11 1759 1775 1775, Jun 17 an American physician who played a leading role in American Patriot organizations in Boston in th... M.D.T. Bienville unknown 1770 1779 unknown an obscure French doctor, he wrote the first full-length study abount nymphomania, entitled Nymph... Thomas Bond 1712, May 2 1737 1784 1784, Mar 26 an American physician and surgeon. In 1751 he co-founded the Pennsylvania Hospital, the first med... Matthew Thornton 1713, Mar 17 1740 1786 1803, Jun 24 a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of New Hampshire. I... Thomas Walker 1715, Jan 25 1740 1789 1794, Nov 9 a distinguished physician and explorer from Virginia; in the mid-18th century, he was part of an ... Lyman Hall 1724, Apr 12 1749 1790 1790, Oct 19 physician, clergyman, and statesman, was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independen... Josiah Bartlett 1729, Nov 21 1750 1790 1795, May 19 an American physician and statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress for New Hampshire, and ... John Andree unknown 1780 1799 unknown an English surgeon. Andree published several books, chiefly on surgical subjects. Through not bei... George Balfour unknown 1790 1799 unknown naval surgeon in the U.S. navy George Bass 1771, Jan 30 1789 1803 unknown a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia. At the age of 18 he was accepted in London as ... Friedrich Schiller 1759, Nov 10 1781 1804 1805, May 9 a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years... William Batt 1744, Jun 18 1770 1809 1812, Feb 9 an English physician, chemist, and botanist. On completing his studies he returned to England, bu... Andrew Grant unknown 1800 1809 unknown a physician and writer. There is very little information available concerning the details of his ... Benjamin Rush 1745, Dec 24 1769 1812 1813, Apr 19 a Founding Father of the United States. Rush was a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a p... Samuel Bard 1742, Apr 1 1765 1813 1821, May 24 an American physician who founded the first medical school in New York City and the second medica... David Ramsay 1749, Apr 2 1773 1815 1815, May 8 an American physician, public official, and historian from Charleston, South Carolina. He was one... Benjamin Smith Barton 1766, Feb 10 1789 1815 1815, Dec 19 an American botanist, naturalist, and physician. Barton corresponded with naturalists throughout ... Jesse Bennett 1769, Jul 10 1791 1815 1842, Jul 13 the first American physician to perform a successful Caesarean section, which he performed on his... Nathan Drake 1766, Jan 15 1780 1817 1836 an English essayist and physician. Drake was apprenticed to a doctor in York in 1780, and in 1786... Benjamin Waterhouse 1754, Mar 4 1782 1821 1846, Oct 2 a physician, co-founder and professor of Harvard Medical School. He is most well known for being ... Edward Jenner 1749, May 17 1770 1823 1823, Jan 26 an English physician and scientist who was the pioneer of smallpox vaccine, the world's first vac... Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers 1758, Oct 11 1779 1827 1840, Mar 2 a German physician and astronomer. Olbers discovered and named the asteroid Pallas. Five years l... William Thornton 1759, May 20 1789 1828 1828, Mar 28 a British-American physician, inventor, painter and architect who designed the United States Capi... John Collins Warren 1778, Aug 1 1801 1856 1856, May 4 an American surgeon. In 1846 he gave permission to William T.G. Morton to provide ether anesthesi... Pierre Adolphe Piorry 1794, Dec 31 1816 1859 1879, May 29 a French physician born in Poitiers. He invented pleximetry (a method for the investigation of in... Giuseppe Asclepi 1706 1760 186 1776 an Italian astronomer and physician. He was a Jesuit and director of the observatory at the Colle...
