François Mauriceau practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists François Mauriceau as French obstetrician.
François Mauriceau was born at Paris in 1637. His recorded nationality is France.
The circulation of the blood and the microscope arrived within a generation of each other, and medicine acquired a mechanism.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
François Mauriceau died in 1709, aged 72. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
