Désiré-Magloire Bourneville belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Désiré-Magloire Bourneville as French neurologist (1840-1909).
Désiré-Magloire Bourneville was born at Garencières in 1840. His recorded nationality is France.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are medicine and neurology.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Désiré-Magloire Bourneville died in 1909, aged 69. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: medicine and neurology
