In the history of medicine, Antoine Ferrein is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Antoine Ferrein as French anatomist.
Antoine Ferrein was born at Frespech in 1693. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier.
The circulation of the blood and the microscope arrived within a generation of each other, and medicine acquired a mechanism.
His posts were held at Collège de France.
The recorded fields of work are medicine, anatomy and anatomical pathology.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Antoine Ferrein died in 1769, aged 76. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Collège de France
- Fields: medicine, anatomy and anatomical pathology
