Gustaf Zander practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Gustaf Zander as Swedish physician, orthopedist (1835-1920).
Gustaf Zander was born at Stockholm in 1835. His recorded nationality is Sweden. He trained at Uppsala University and Karolinska Institutet.
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 Sweden matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Gustaf Zander died in 1920, aged 85. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
