Carl Wedl belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Carl Wedl as Austrian pathologist (1815-1891).
Carl Wedl was born at Vienna in 1815. He trained at University of Vienna.
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 Vienna.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
Carl Wedl died in 1891, aged 76. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Vienna
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