Notable Health Care Givers: Physicians & Nurses: “Sa...-”
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Health Care Practitioners -

Albert Sabin, née Saperstein
b. 8-26-1906; Bialystok, Poland
d. 3-3-1993; Washington, DC

Medical researcher Dr. Albert Sabin is best remembered for developing an oral polio vaccine.

Florence Sabin
b. 11-9-1871; Central City, CO
d. 10-3-1953; Denver

Florence Rena Sabin, a medical scientist, was the first woman to hold a full professorship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the first woman elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and the first woman to head a department at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. She came out of retirement to pursued a second career as a public health activist in Colorado.

• Florence Sabin in Women of Science composite poster
• Probing the Unknown: The Story of Dr. Florence Sabin

Jonas Salk
b. 10-28-1914; NYC
d. 6-23-1995; La Jolla, CA

“To a scientist fame is neither an end nor a means to an end.”

Dr. Salk was a biologist and physician best known for the research and development of the first effective polio vaccine.

Jonas Salk quotes ~
• “Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.”
• “The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.”

• more Heroes of the 20th Century posters
• Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine

Margaret Sanger, née Higgins
b. 9-14-1879; Corning, NY
b. 9-6-1966; Tucson, Arizona

Margaret Sanger was a birth control activist who gradually won support for a woman to decide how and when she would have children. She was the founder of the American Birth Control League which eventually became Planned Parenthood.

FYI - Margaret, who was the 6th child of 11 live births, spent her childhood caring for the household and siblings. Her mother, Anne Purcell Higgins, was a devout Catholic who went through 18 pregnancies before dying of tuberculosis and cervical cancer.

Margaret Sanger quotes ~
• “No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
• “When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.”

• reproductive system posters
• Roe v Wade Supreme Court poster
• The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

John Sappington
b. 5-15-1776; Havre de Grace, MD
d. 9-7-1856; Arrow Rock, MO

Dr. John Sappington, the author of the first medical book published west of the Mississippi River, is regarded as the first doctor to “effectively use quinine (from the chinchona plant) for the treatment of malaria and fevers.”

In 1832 Dr. Sappington began marketing his Anti-Fever Pills in Missouri and founded a company to sell the pills nationwide. Eventually the value of the pills superceded the standard treatment of bleeding the sick patient, especially after Dr. Sappington revealed the formula for the pills in his medical book.

Dr. Sappington was friends with Senator Thomas Hart Benton and the artist George Caleb Bingham; he was also the father-in-law and grandfather of three Missouri governors.