Notable Health Care Givers: Physicians & Nurses: “G...-”
educational posters for health classrooms, homeschoolers and professional offices.

Notable physicians and nurses posters ~

Paul Gachet
b. 7-30-1828; Lille, France
d. 1-9-1909; Paris

Doctor Paul Gachet, who was an amateur painter, treated Vincent Van Gogh during his time at Auvers-sur-Oise.

After earning a medical degree Gachet worked in the mental hospitals of Bicetre and Salpetriere and had a reputation of being sympathetic to creative individuals.

Among the people Gachet knew or treated were Gustave Courbet, Victor Hugo, Auguste Renoir, and Edouard Manet (and Manet didn't take his advise).

Galen
b. c. 129 AD; Pergamon, Greece
d. c. 200 AD; Rome

Ancient Greek physician Galen dominated Western medicine for more than a thousand years. He was particularly noted for his anatomy knowledge - though the Romans forbade dissection of human corpses, the wounds of the gladiators sufficed in giving the opportunity to explore how the body was put together - Galen said wounds “were the windows into the body.”

Galen quote ~
• “Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!”

Richard J. Gatling
b. 9-12-1818; Como, NC
d. 2-26-1903; NYC

Richard Gatling, who graduated from Ohio Medical School in 1850, noted that most Civil War casualties were due to disease. He reasoned that an automatic gun which multiplied the killing power of one soldier would reduce the number to soldiers needed to go to war, and reduce the number of dead.

Gatling's invention, a machine gun, was based on his seed planter, and manufactured in Indianapolis, IN.

Oliver Goldsmith, Giclee Print

Oliver Goldsmith
b. 11-10-1730; Ireland
d. 4-4-1774; London

Oliver Goldsmith, educated as a physician, is best known as the author of the novel The Vicar of Wakefield, the play She Stoops to Conquer, and possibly the fairy tale Little Goody Two-Shoes.

Goldsmith was friends with Samuel Johnson and a founding member of “The Club” with philosopher Edmund Burke and portrait painter Joshua Reynolds.

Henry Gray
b. 1827; London, England
d. 6-13-1861; London - smallpox

Henry Gray, anatomist and surgeon, is most remembered for his Anatomy of the Human Body, commonly known as Gray's Anatomy.

Zane Grey
née Pearl Zane Gray
b. 1-31-1872; Zanesville, OH
d. 10-23-1939; Altadena, CA

Zane Grey, who is best remembered for his adventure stories of an idealized rugged Old West, was educated to be a dentist.

Zane Grey quotes ~
• “I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.”
• “I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.”

• The Definitive Zane Grey Collection

Che Guevara
(Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna)
b. 6-14-1928; Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
d. 10-9-1967; La Higuera, Vallegrande, Bolivia

Che Guevara, best known as a Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader, was also a physician. It was his training that sensitived him to the poverty that he saw in Latin America.

A 1960 picture of Che by Alberto Korda was the inspiration for artist Jim Fitzpatrick who “posterized” version is said to be the most reproduced image in photography.

Che Guevara quotes ~
• “If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
• “Let me say, at the risk of seeming ridiculous, that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love.”

Doctor Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
b. 5-28-1738; Saintes, France
d. 3-26-1814; Paris

Doctor Guillotin was opposed to the death penalty and hoped that a more humane and less painful method of execution would be a step toward a total abolition of the death penalty.

Notable people executed by the guillotine: Louis XVI, Marie Antionette, Madame du Barry, Charlotte Corday, Olympe de Gouges, Antoine Lavoisier, Maximillien Robespierre, Andre Chenier.