Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin as French surgeon (1790-1847).
Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin was born at Saint-Paul-en-Jarez in 1787. His recorded nationality is France.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin died in 1847, aged 60. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
