Cathinka Guldberg practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Cathinka Guldberg as Norwegian nurse (1840–1919).
Cathinka Guldberg was born at Oslo in 1840. Her recorded nationality is Norway.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Norway matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Cathinka Guldberg died in 1919, aged 79. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
