In the history of medicine, Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand as German forensic pathologist (1811-1894).
Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand was born at Giessen in 1811. His recorded nationality is German Reich. He trained at University of Giessen.
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 Giessen.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from German Reich matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Franz Joseph Julius Wilbrand died in 1894, aged 83. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Giessen
