Hans Hunziker practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Hans Hunziker as Swiss physician (1878-1941).
Hans Hunziker was born at Attelwil in 1878. His recorded nationality is Switzerland. He trained at University of Zurich and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
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 Basel.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Switzerland matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Hans Hunziker died in 1941, aged 63. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Basel
