In the history of medicine, Charles Drelincourt the Younger is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Charles Drelincourt the Younger as French anatomist (1633–1697).
Charles Drelincourt the Younger was born at Paris in 1633. His recorded nationality is France. He trained at Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier.
The circulation of the blood and the microscope arrived within a generation of each other, and medicine acquired a mechanism.
His posts were held at Leiden University.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Charles Drelincourt the Younger died in 1697, aged 64. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Leiden University
