Emilio Núñez practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Emilio Núñez as Soldier, dentist, and politician (1855-1922).
Emilio Núñez was born at Esperanza in 1855. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at University of Pennsylvania.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
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.
Emilio Núñez died in 1922, aged 67. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
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