Notable Health Care Givers: Physicians & Nurses: “Sc...-Se...-”
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Notable Health Care Practitioners ~

Friedrich Schiller
b. 11-10-1759; Germany
d. 5-9-1805; Weimer (tuberculosis)

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, better remembered as a poet, playwright, history professor and philosopher, also studied medicine and was a regimental doctor for a time.

Friedrich Schiller quotes ~
• “A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.”
• “Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.”
• “Art is the daughter of freedom.”
• “Freedom can occur only through education.”
• “Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish play.”
• “In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.”

• On the Aesthetic Education of Man, Schiller

Dr. Scholl
b. 6-22-1882; La Porte, IN
d. 3-29-1968; Chicago

William Mathias Scholl was a podiatrist (doctor specializing in feet) and the founder of Dr. Scholl's, a footwear and foot care products company.

Albert Schweitzer
b. 1-14-1875; Alsace-Lorraine
d. 9-4-1965; Africa

• Nobel Prize Winner posters
• Albert Schweitzer posters
• Africa posters

Mary Seacole
b. 1805; Jamaica
d. 5-14-1881

Mary Seacole, who was taught basic remedies and herbal medicine by her mother, spent her own money to travel to Crimea to help treat wounded soldiers after being rejected by Florence Nightingale's nursing program.

• Mary Seacole: The Black Woman Who Invented Modern Nursing
• Black History posters

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Edouard Séguin
b. 1-12-1812; France
d. 10-28-1880; NYC

Physician and educator Edouard Séguin is best remembered for working with children having cognitive impairments. Séguin's work with the mentally handicapped was encouraged by his teacher, Jean Marc Gaspard Itard; and Séguin was a major inspiration to Maria Montessori.

Edouard Séguin quote ~
• “Not one idiot in a thousand has been entirely refractory to treatment, not one in a hundred has not been made more happy and healthy; more than thirty per cent have been taught to conform to social and moral law, and rendered capable of order, of good feeling, and of working like the third of a man; more than forty per cent have become capable of the ordinary transactions of life under friendly control, of understanding moral and social abstractions, of working like two-thirds of a man.”

Ignac Semmelweis
b. 7-1-1818; Hungary
d. 8-13-1865; Vienna (possibly Alzeheimers)

Ignac Semmelweis is call the “savior of mothers” for his 1847 discovery that the incidence of puerperal fever (childbed fever) was cut by doctors washing their hands before attending a patient.

• pregnancy posters