Medicine
- Baruj Benacerraf, Venezuelan born American, Nobel Prize of Medicine in (1980).
- José Gregorio Hernández, and religious figure (Catholic religion).
- Marcel Roche, physician and educator.
- José María Vargas, modernized the Medicine studies in Venezuela, in the Second half of the nineteenth century.
- Tobías Lasser, botanist, founder of the Botanic Garden of Caracas
- Humberto Fernández Morán, research scientist, founder of the Venezuelan Institute for Neurological and Brain Studies and developed the diamond scalpel.
- Jacinto Convit, medic and scientist, known for developing a vaccine to fight leprosy and his studies to cure different types of cancer. In 1987, he received a Prince of Asturias Award in the Scientific and Technical Research category. Nominated for a Nobel Prize in Medicine by his anti-leprosy vaccine in 1988.
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“He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
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—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Authority, though it err like others,
Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself,
That skins the vice o’ the top.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)