Barend Joseph Stokvis is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Barend Joseph Stokvis as physician and professor of physiology (1834–1902).
Barend Joseph Stokvis was born at Amsterdam in 1834. His recorded nationality is Netherlands. He trained at Utrecht University and University of Amsterdam.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University of Amsterdam, Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
That the work was done from Netherlands matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Barend Joseph Stokvis died in 1902, aged 68. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Amsterdam, Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam
