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

Notable physicians and nurses ~

Aimé Bonpland
b. 8-22-1773; France
d. 5-4-1858; Argentina

Aime Bonpland was a French army surgeon, explorer, botantist and professor of natural history who collected and classified plants in the Amazon and Orinoco River basins. He was part of a Alexander von Humboldt expedition and imprisoned for ten years in Paraguay as an accused spy. A street in Buenos Aires and a crater on the moon are named for him, as well as many plants and animals.

• Measuring the World: A Novel

Mary Breckenridge
b. 2-17-1881; Memphis, TN
d. 5-19-1965

Mary Breckinridge was a nurse-midwife and the founder of the Frontier Nursing Service, family care centers in the Appalachian mountains. Her grandfather, John C. Breckinridge, was US Vice President under Buchanan; she was a cousin of Sophonisba Breckinridge.

Robert Bridges
b. 10-23-1844; England
d. 4-21-1930

Robert Bridges was a physician who retired to become a poet. He was the Poet Laureate of England from 1913-1930.

Robert Bridges quote ~
• “I live on hope and that I think do all Who come into this world.”

• The Testament of Beauty

Richard Bright
b. 9-28-1789; England
d. 12-16-1858

Richard Bright is considered the “father of nephrology”. His research into the causes and symptoms of kidney disease led to his identifying what became known as Bright's disease. The term is used now only in historical significance.

Notable victims of Bright's disease include Chester A. Arthur, Madame Blavatsky, Emily Dickinson, Jean Harlow, Gregor Mendel, Helena Modjeska, Mozart, and Linus Pauling.

Paul Broca
b. 6-28-1824; France
d. 7-9-1880

Paul Broca, a physician, anatomist, and anthropologist, is most famous for his discovery of the speech production center of the brain, known as Broca's Brain.

Paul Broca quote ~
• “The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.”

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Gro Harlem Brundtland
b. 4-20-1939; Norway

A former Norgewian Prime Minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland, was trained as a physician. She is a leader in sustainable development and public health, serving as the Director General of the World Health Organization and a Special Envoy on Climate Change for the UN.