Alfhild Tamm practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Alfhild Tamm as Swedish physician.
Alfhild Tamm was born at Tveta församling in 1876. Her recorded nationality is Sweden.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Sweden matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Alfhild Tamm died in 1959, aged 83. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
