In the history of medicine, Carl August Wilhelm Berends is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Carl August Wilhelm Berends as German physician.
Carl August Wilhelm Berends was born at Anklam in 1759. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at University of Vienna.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Wrocław and University of Frankfurt an der Oder.
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 August Wilhelm Berends died in 1826, aged 67. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Wrocław and University of Frankfurt an der Oder
