In the history of medicine, Frances Margaret Taylor is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Frances Margaret Taylor as British nurse, writer, editor, nun, foundress, Roman catholic venerable (1832-1900).
Frances Margaret Taylor was born at Stoke Rochford in 1832.
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.
Frances Margaret Taylor died in 1900, aged 68. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
