Carl Ludwig Schleich is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Carl Ludwig Schleich as German surgeon (1859-1922).
Carl Ludwig Schleich was born at Szczecin in 1859. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at University of Greifswald.
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 Greifswald and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The recorded fields of work are medicine and anaesthesiology.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
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 Ludwig Schleich died in 1922, aged 63. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Greifswald and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Fields: medicine and anaesthesiology
