Georg Karl Tänzler belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Georg Karl Tänzler as (1877-1952) German-born American radiology technologist and erotomaniac.
Georg Karl Tänzler was born at Dresden in 1877. His recorded nationality is Germany.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Georg Karl Tänzler died in 1952, aged 75. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
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