In the history of medicine, Carl Kaiserling is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Carl Kaiserling as German pathologist (1869–1942).
Carl Kaiserling was born at Wehlheiden in 1869. His recorded nationality is German Reich. He trained at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from German Reich matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Carl Kaiserling died in 1942, aged 73. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
