Health Care Practitioners Posters: Physicians & Doctors: “Ma...-”
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Notable physicians and nurses ~

Clara Maass Heroic Nurse, United States First Day Cover Stamps 1976

Clara Maass
b. 6-28-1876; East Orange, NJ
d. 8-24-1901; Cuba

Clara Maass was a nurse with the U.S. Army whose nursing duties were mostly providing care for soldiers suffering from infectious diseases like typhoid, malaria, dengue and yellow fever.

Mosquitoes Land on Man's Arm During Yellow Fever Testing, Photographic Print

Maass volunteered twice to be biten by a yellow fever infected mosquito; the first bite resulted in a mild case, she died the second time.

• Yellow Fever: A Deadly Disease Poised to Kill Again

Mary Eliza Mahoney

Mary Eliza Mahoney
b. 5-7-1845; Dorchester, MA
d. 1-4-1926; (breast cancer)

Mary Eliza Mahoney worked for fifteen years at the New England Hospital for Women and Children as a cook, janitor, washerwoman and unofficial nurse's assistant before being admitted as a student into the nursing program, and becoming the first African American registered nurse in the U.S. In 1908, she co-founded the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) with Adah Thoms.

Savants at the Table of Maimonides, from a Passover Haggadah, Giclee Print

Maimonides
b. 3-30-1135; Cordoba, Spain
d. 12-13-1204; Egypt

Moses Maimonides, a rabbi and philosopher, is also considered one of the greatest physicians of his time, writing a number of medical texts.

Oath of Maimonides: The eternal providence has appointed me to watch over the life and health of Thy creatures. May the love for my art actuate me at all time; may neither avarice nor miserliness, nor thirst for glory or for a great reputation engage my mind; for the enemies of truth and philanthropy could easily deceive me and make me forgetful of my lofty aim of doing good to Thy children.

May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain.

Grant me the strength, time and opportunity always to correct what I have acquired, always to extend its domain; for knowledge is immense and the spirit of man can extend indefinitely to enrich itself daily with new requirements.

Today he can discover his errors of yesterday and tomorrow he can obtain a new light on what he thinks himself sure of today. Oh, God, Thou has appointed me to watch over the life and death of Thy creatures; here am I ready for my vocation and now I turn unto my calling.

Maimonides quote ~
• “No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.”

Marcello Malpighi Giclee Print

Marcello Malpighi
b. 3-10-1628; Crevalcore near Bologna, Italy
d. 9-30-1694; Rome (apoplexy/stroke)

Physician to Pope Innocent XII, Marcello Malpighi is also notable for his microscopic studies, giving his name to several physiological features - a layer of skin (Malpighi layer) and two different Malpighian corpuscles in the kidneys and the spleen, as well as the Malpighian tubules in the excretory system of insects.

The botanist Linnaeus named the genus Malpighia in honor of Malpighi's work on plants; Malpighia is the type genus for the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical and subtropical flowering plants.

Jean Paul Marat, Politician, Dead in His Bathtub, Assassinated by Charlotte Corday, Giclee Print

Jean-Paul Marat
b. 5-24-1734; Boudry, Principality of Neuenburg (Neuchâtel), Prussia, today Switzerland
d. 7-13-1793; Paris

Jean-Paul Marat was a physician and scientist, better known as a radical journalist and politician from the French Revolution. He was affiliated with the Jacobins, the group that implemented the Reign of Terror.

Marat suffered from a skin disease that he sought relief for by soaking in a medicinal bath. He was stabbed while in the bath by Charlotte Corday, a sympathizer with a more moderate political faction.

Jean-Paul Marat quote ~
• “Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.”
• “God has always been hard on the poor.”

Bridget “Biddy” Mason
b. 8-15-1818; Hancock County, GA
d. 1-15-1891; Los Angeles, CA

“Biddy” Mason, born into slavery, was a skilled nurse and midwife. She is best remembered for walking the two thousand miles she traveled with her owners, eventually getting to the free state of California. She won her freedom in a Los Angeles courtroom in 1856 - even though the law did not allow people of color to speak in open court. As a free woman she became fluent in Spanish, saved her money, and helped anyone who was in need. She also bought property and became a wealthy woman. In 1872 she founded the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles. And because the public school was not open to blacks, she provided the money to start the city's first school for African-Americans. (based on book description)

Petrus Andreas Mattioli
b. 3-23-1501; Siena, Italy
d. 1577; Trento

Petrus Andreas Mattioli was a botanist, herbalist and physician. He coordinated the work of Dioscorides with 100 new descriptions of plants, including the first documentation of a vegetable being grown, and eaten, in Europe - the tomato from the New World. He was also the first to describe an allergic reaction to a cat.

Dr. Charles H. Mayo
b. 7-19-1865; Rochester, Minnesota
d. 5-26-1939; Chicago

Charles Horace Mayo was one of the founders of the Mayo Clinic, the world's first “integrated group practice”, along with his brother William. Other founders included Drs. Stinchfield, Graham, Judd, Plummer, Millet, and Balfour.