Agostino Bertani belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Agostino Bertani as Italian physician end revolutionary (1812-1886).
Agostino Bertani was born at Milan in 1812. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Sardinia. He trained at University of Pavia.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from Kingdom of Sardinia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Agostino Bertani died in 1886, aged 74. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
