Henri Legrand du Saulle practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Henri Legrand du Saulle as French psychiatrist (1830–1886).
Henri Legrand du Saulle was born at Dijon in 1830. His recorded nationality is France.
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, neurology and epileptology.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
Recognition followed: Officer of the Legion of Honour (1881).
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Henri Legrand du Saulle died in 1886, aged 56. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Officer of the Legion of Honour — 1881
- Fields: medicine, neurology and epileptology
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