In the history of medicine, Jan Mikulicz-Radecki is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jan Mikulicz-Radecki as Polish surgeon (1850-1905).
Jan Mikulicz-Radecki was born at Chernivtsi in 1850. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at University of Vienna.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University of Wrocław.
The recorded fields of work are surgery.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Jan Mikulicz-Radecki died in 1905, aged 55. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Wrocław
- Fields: surgery
