Medical Pioneers

Introduction Leonid Ivanovich Rogozov (1934-2000) is a legendary figure in the history of medicine and Antarctica medical history, famous for

Imagine a doctor in the trenches of 1918, dealing not with the wounds of war, but with an unstoppable epidemic

In 1854, a young woman entered the blood-soaked, disease-ridden chaos of a Crimean War field hospital. She didn’t wield a

In the early 20th century, a simple sore throat could be a death sentence. While doctors knew what bacteria were,

In the 1800s, rampant infections made giving birth in a hospital more dangerous than a battlefield. Yet, a simple practice

In the 1800s, surgery was a brutal race against death, but few surgeons were as skilled—or as infamous—as Robert Liston.