Catherine Jane Wood is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Catherine Jane Wood as British nurse (1841-1930).
Catherine Jane Wood was born at London in 1841. Her recorded nationality is United Kingdom.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
That the work was done from United Kingdom matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Catherine Jane Wood died in 1930, aged 89. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
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