Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus as German neurologist (1851–1942).
Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus was born at Rietberg in 1851. His recorded nationality is German Reich. He trained at University of Würzburg.
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 German Reich matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus died in 1942, aged 91. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
