Henry Bence Jones belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Henry Bence Jones as English physician and chemist (1813–1873).
Henry Bence Jones was born at Stoke-by-Nayland in 1813. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Harrow School and Trinity College.
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.
Recognition followed: Fellow of the Royal Society, Croonian Medal and Lecture (1868) and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London.
That the work was done from United Kingdom matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Henry Bence Jones died in 1873, aged 60. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Croonian Medal and Lecture — 1868
- Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London
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