Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke as American-born French medical doctor (1859-1927).
Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke was born at San Francisco in 1859. Her recorded nationality is France. She trained at Paris Medical Faculty.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are medicine, neurology and neuroscience.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
Recognition followed: Godard Prize (1886), Knight of the Legion of Honour (1913) and Officer of the Legion of Honour (1921).
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke died in 1927, aged 68. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Godard Prize — 1886
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1913
- Officer of the Legion of Honour — 1921
- Fields: medicine, neurology and neuroscience
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