Elmer Ernest Southard practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Elmer Ernest Southard as American neuropsychiatrist, neuropathologist, professor.
Elmer Ernest Southard was born at Boston in 1876. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Harvard Medical School and Harvard University.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Boston Psychopathic Hospital and Harvard University.
The recorded fields of work are neuropsychiatry.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
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.
Elmer Ernest Southard died in 1920, aged 44. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Boston Psychopathic Hospital and Harvard University
- Fields: neuropsychiatry
