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Science & Medicine

Auguste Deter, first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, born May 16, 1849

Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist, born June 14, 1864

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician, born June 9, 1836

Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist, died September 28, 1735

The American Medical Association, founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 7, 1847

Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar, born March 19, 1864

Averroes, Spanish physician and philosopher, died December 10, 1198

Francis Bacon, English philosopher, died, April 9, 1626

Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist, born March 24, 1945

Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon, born November 8, 1922

Clara Barton, American nurse, died April 12, 1912

Patricia Bath, American ophthalmologist and academic, born November 4, 1942

Emil von Behring, German physician, born March 15, 1854

Wilfred Gordon Bigelow, Canadian surgeon, born June 18, 1913

Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D., becoming the United States’ first female doctor, January 23, 1849.

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