In the history of medicine, Friedrich Fülleborn is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Friedrich Fülleborn as German physician and naturalist (1866-1933).
Friedrich Fülleborn was born at Chełmno in 1866. His recorded nationality is Germany.
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 Hamburg and Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine.
The recorded fields of work are tropical medicine.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Friedrich Fülleborn died in 1933, aged 67. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Hamburg and Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine
- Fields: tropical medicine
