Jean-Louis Prevost practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Jean-Louis Prevost as Swiss physician (1838-1927).
Jean-Louis Prevost was born at Geneva in 1838. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
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 Geneva.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Switzerland matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Jean-Louis Prevost died in 1927, aged 89. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Geneva
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