Johann Conrad Brunner is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Johann Conrad Brunner as Swiss anatomist.
Johann Conrad Brunner was born at Diessenhofen in 1653. His recorded nationality is Switzerland. He trained at University of Strasbourg and University of Strasbourg.
The circulation of the blood and the microscope arrived within a generation of each other, and medicine acquired a mechanism.
His posts were held at Heidelberg University.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
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 Conrad Brunner died in 1727, aged 74. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Heidelberg University
