In the history of medicine, Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich as German psychiatrist (1815-1877).
Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich was born at Sulz am Neckar in 1815. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Württemberg. He trained at University of Tübingen.
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 Tübingen and Leipzig University.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Kingdom of Württemberg matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich died in 1877, aged 62. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Tübingen and Leipzig University
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