In the history of medicine, Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl as Austrian botanist, entomologist, geologist and physician (1782-1834).
Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl was born at Česká Kamenice in 1782. He trained at Charles University.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
His posts were held at Charles University.
The recorded fields of work are botany.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Johann Baptist Emanuel Pohl died in 1834, aged 52. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Charles University
- Fields: botany
