Corneille Antoine Jean Abraham Oudemans practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Corneille Antoine Jean Abraham Oudemans as Dutch botanist, physician and university professor (1825-1906).
Corneille Antoine Jean Abraham Oudemans was born at Amsterdam in 1825. His recorded nationality is Netherlands. He trained at University of Paris and 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 Amsterdam and Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Netherlands matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Corneille Antoine Jean Abraham Oudemans died in 1906, aged 81. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Amsterdam and Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam
