Horace Newton Allen practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Horace Newton Allen as American missionary, diplomat, physician (1858-1932).
Horace Newton Allen was born at Delaware in 1858. His recorded nationality is United States. He trained at Ohio Wesleyan University and Ohio Medical College.
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 United States matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Horace Newton Allen died in 1932, aged 74. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
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