Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann as English-born German physician (1855-1916).
Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann was born at London in 1855. She trained at Bedford College.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
Hope Bridges Adams Lehmann died in 1916, aged 61. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
