Jean Nageotte is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Jean Nageotte as French neuroanatomist, neurologist and neuropathologist (1866-1948).
Jean Nageotte was born at Dijon in 1866. His recorded nationality is France.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Collège de France.
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.
Jean Nageotte died in 1948, aged 82. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Collège de France
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