In the history of medicine, Franz Christian Boll is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Franz Christian Boll as German physiologist and histologist (1849–1879).
Franz Christian Boll was born at Neubrandenburg in 1849. His recorded nationality is Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. He trained at Heidelberg University and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University of Genoa and Sapienza University of Rome.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Franz Christian Boll died in 1879, aged 30. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Genoa and Sapienza University of Rome
