George Huntington practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists George Huntington as American physician (1850–1916); discoverer of Huntington's disease.
George Huntington was born at East Hampton in 1850. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Columbia University and Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are medicine.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
George Huntington died in 1916, aged 66. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: medicine
