In the history of medicine, Charles Horace Mayo is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Charles Horace Mayo as American physician (1865–1939).
Charles Horace Mayo was born at Rochester in 1865. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Feinberg School of Medicine.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Recognition followed: honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (1920).
That the work was done from United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Charles Horace Mayo died in 1939, aged 74. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons — 1920
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