In the history of medicine, Johann Bauhin is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Johann Bauhin as Swiss physician and botanist (1541-1612).
Johann Bauhin was born at Basel in 1541. His recorded nationality is Switzerland. He trained at University of Basel and Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier.
Dissection returned in this period and overturned inherited anatomy, which had been copied without checking for centuries.
His posts were held at University of Basel.
The recorded fields of work are botany, mycology and medicine.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Switzerland matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Johann Bauhin died in 1612, aged 71. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Basel
- Fields: botany, mycology and medicine
