1. physicians
by Blythe Coss

2. Greek Aesculapius Dioscorides Rufus Hippocrates Galen
Greek god for medicine
Traveled around and researched medical uses for every herb
Rufus wrote On the Names of the Parts of the Human Body; follower of Hippocrates
“Father of Modern Medicine”; humors; contradicted everyone’s thinking that sickness was punishment from the gods
Physician and philosopher; personal physicians to emperors

3. Arabic Haly Rhazes Serapion Averroes Avicenna
description of the capillary circulation; his Royal Book was translated by Constantine and used as a textbook for surgery
wrote botanical, zoological, physics, and mathematic works
Founded the Empiric school of medicine
Known more as a Muslim philosopher who popularized Aristotle
Recognized the potential of airborne transmission of disease

4. Early Medieval Damascenus Constantinus
“Saint John of Damascus” Monk and priest
Thought the zodiac signs corresponded to the body

5. European Bernard Gilbert Gaddesden
Bernard of Gordon;  French doctor and professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier
Sought to unite the old teachings with new teachings; drew attention to small pox and how it was contagious
Treated Edward I son for smallpox