Okay, beyond [name_u]Galen[/name_u] and Hippocrates (or even [name_m]Colon[/name_m]!), any other name that could be connected to the fascinating world of medicine? I’m open to any kind of suggestions for boys or girls.
I don’t know anything about this. The only name I can think of is [name_f]Allegra[/name_f], because it’s an allergy medication.
Well there’s [name_f]Amelia[/name_f]…in medicine it is a birth defect characterized by the absence of one or more limbs.
Merit She was the first female doctor.
[name_f]Althea[/name_f] - means healer
[name_f]Valencia[/name_f]- means healthy
[name_f]Siena[/name_f] - as in St. [name_f]Catherine[/name_f] of [name_f]Siena[/name_f], patron saint of nurses
[name_m]Cosmas[/name_m] - patron saint of doctors, I think. If you couldn’t tell, my big book o’ saints I had as a kid was my first name book to pour over!
What about?
[name_m]Jonas[/name_m] for Salk
[name_f]Florence[/name_f] for Nightengale
Avicenna for a Persian writer famous for his works on medicine (pretty name too!)
[name_u]Gray[/name_u] for the Anatomist
I think Nightingale would make an awesome mn, boy or girl
[name_m]Daniel[/name_m] [name_m]Hale[/name_m] [name_m]Williams[/name_m]
[name_m]Horus[/name_m]
Bes
Merit Ptah
[name_m]Alfred[/name_m] Blalock
[name_m]John[/name_m] [name_f]Snow[/name_f]
[name_u]Rene[/name_u] [name_u]Theophile[/name_u] [name_f]Hyacinthe[/name_f] Laennec
[name_f]Clara[/name_f] [name_m]Barton[/name_m]
Panacea
He spelt it [name_u]Grey[/name_u].
– a doctor in [name_f]Anne[/name_f] of [name_u]Green[/name_u] Gables.
Ancient Greek doctor god Asclepius.
One of [name_m]Apollo[/name_m]'s domains was medicine, and he is sometimes referred to by the epithet Paean, which I think is cute, also Ulius (of sound health), and by personal fav, Boedromius (rescuer)
[name_u]Asa[/name_u] means God heals.
[name_f]Alexia[/name_f] is an inability to read caused by a brain lesion - but I don’t think that’s quite what you’re looking for…?!
OMG, [name_m]Gilbert[/name_m] [name_f]Blythe[/name_f]! SWOON! (I named my car [name_m]Gilbert[/name_m] in his honour…!)
No, he didn’t actually. See the wikipedia article on Henry Gray.
[name_u]Grey[/name_u]'s Anatomy is a television show. It’s spelled [name_u]Grey[/name_u] there because one of the doctor’s is named [name_u]Meredith[/name_u] [name_u]Grey[/name_u].
See, I knew there were some
Thank you all! Keep them coming though, some of them were really great!