In the history of medicine, Carl Arnold Kortum is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Carl Arnold Kortum as German physician.
Carl Arnold Kortum was born at Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1745. His recorded nationality is Germany.
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.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Carl Arnold Kortum died in 1824, aged 79. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
