In the history of medicine, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Friedrich Kasimir Medikus as German physician and botanist (1736-1808).
Friedrich Kasimir Medikus was born at Grumbach in 1736. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at Heidelberg University.
The recorded fields of work are botany and 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 Kasimir Medikus died in 1808, aged 72. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Heidelberg University
- Fields: botany and medicine
