Health Care Practitioners Posters: Physicians & Nurses: “Pe...-Py...-”
for health classrooms, homeschoolers and professional offices.

Notable physicians and nurses ~

Claude Perrault
b. 9-25-1613; Paris, France
d. 10-9-1688; Paris

Claude Perrault, best known as the architect of the colonnade on eastern range of the Louvre Palace in Paris, was also a successful physician, anatomist and author who wrote treatises on physics and natural history. He was also the older brother of Charles Perrault, the collector of folk tales and fables.

• Ordonnance for the Five Kinds of Columns after the Method of the Ancients

Ann Preston
b. 12-1-1813; West Grove, PA
d. 4-18-1872; Philadelphia

Ann Preston was the first woman to be made dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP), a school founded by Quakers. She strove to make the best educational opportunities, such as clinical lectures at the Philadelphia Hospital, available to her students. She also organized a woman's hospital and established a nursing school.

FYI - Preston was a member of the first class at WMCP, graduating at age 38. Earlier in her life she worked as an abolitionist, joined the temperance movement, and taught physiology and hygiene to all-female classes.

Pythagoras
b. c. 569 BC; Greece
d. c. 475 BC

Pythagoras was a philosopher who believed that numbers were the ultimate reality and everything could be predicted and measured in rhythmic patterns or cycles described through mathematics, including music.

Pythagoras quotes ~
• “As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.”
• “There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.”