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

Notable physicians and nurses ~

René Laennec
b. 2-17-1781; France
d. 8-13-1826; tuberculosis

Physician René Laennec invented the stethoscope in 1816.

Susan La Flesche Picotte
b. 6-17-1865; Omaha Reservation, NE
d. 2-17-1932

Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first American Indian woman to become a physician in the US. She cared for both Indian and white patients, opening a hospital on the reservation in 1913. Her sister Susette LaFlesche was an artist and writer, their brother Francis was an anthropologist.

Dominique Jean Larrey
b. 7-8-1766; France
d. 7-25-1842

Dominique Jean Larrey was a surgeon in Napoleon's army and an important innovator in battlefield medicine:

• he established the rule of triage for war casualties in providing care based on need and not rank or nationality,
• developed field hospitals that are forerunners of Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH), and
• created ambulance corps.

While Larrey was retrieving and caring for French wounded at Waterloo, the English commander, the Duke of Wellington, ordered his army to not fire in Larrey's direction because of the courage he exhibited.

Larrey also was a co-leader in a surgical team that performed a pre-anesthetic mastectomy on author Frances Burney in 1811.

Carl Linnaeus
b. 5-13-1707; Sweden
d. 1-10-1778; Uppsala

Carl Linnaeus, also known as Carolus Linnaeus (Latinized) and Carl von Linné (after ennoblement), was a botanist, physician and zoologist. He is recognized as the “Father of Modern Taxonomy”, and one of the fathers of modern ecology.

Linnaeus' contribution to science is the binary nomenclature, a formal system of naming species with a Latin name in two parts: first genus, then a specific description, ie. Rangifer tarandus for the reindeer.

• Animal Kingdom poster

Sir Joseph Lister
b. 4-5-1827; England
d. 2-10-1912

Joseph Lister was a surgeon who successfully introduced the preventing of infections with the sterilization of surgical instruments and wounds. (Florence Nightengale, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and Ignaz Semmelweis were important advocates of cleanliness in health care and what would come to be know as antisepic practices.) Listerine mouthwash is named after Lister.

FYI - Poet William Ernest Henley was a patient of Lister, who saved his remaining leg.

• Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster: The Search for the Smallpox Vaccine

Dr. David Livingstone
b. 3-19-1813, Scotland
d. 5-1-1873, Zambia

David Livingstone was a medical missionary and explorer in Africa. In 1871 he was “found” by Henry Morton Stanley: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

• Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone

John Locke Giclee Print

John Locke
b. 8-29-1632; England
d. 10-28-1704

Physician John Locke is best remembered today as the “Father of Liberalism”, one of the most influential Enlightenment era philosophers with his thought instrumental in the founding of the United States nearly a hundred years after his death.

Locke defined a person as “a thinking intelligent Being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider it self as it self, the same thinking thing in different times and places; which it does only by that consciousness, which is inseparable from thinking, and as it seems to me essential to it”... (Essay on Human Understanding, Book 2, Chapter 27, Section 9).

John Locke “Logic - The anatomy of thought.”

John Locke quotes ~
• “Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.”
• “Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.”
• “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”

• Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration

Crawford Long
b. 11-1-1815; Danielsville, GA
d. 6-16-1878

Physician and pharmacist Crawford Long is best remembered for his pioneering use of diethyl ether as an anesthetic. He used ether in a surgery in 1842.

Eva C. E. Luckes
b. 7-8-1854; England
d. 2-16-1919

Eva Charlotte Ellis Luckes introduced nurses training and programs to improve the nursing profession. She served as the Matron of the London Hospital for 39 years, 1880-1919.

Luke the Evangelist
b. ?; Antioch, Turkey
d. c. 84; Boeotia, Greece

Luke the Evangelist, an early Christian leader, is the Patron Saint of Physicians. He is considered to have written both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.