In the history of medicine, Augustus Granville is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Augustus Granville as Italian physician and writer.
Augustus Granville was born at Milan in 1783. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Recognition followed: Fellow of the Royal Society and Order of Saint Michael.
That the work was done from United Kingdom matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Augustus Granville died in 1872, aged 89. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Order of Saint Michael
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