In the history of medicine, Johann Georg Mezger is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Johann Georg Mezger as Dutch physician.
Johann Georg Mezger was born at Amsterdam in 1838. His recorded nationality is Netherlands.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Recognition followed: Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown (1870), Royal Order of the Polar Star (1871), Order of St. Olav (1873) and Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (1875).
That the work was done from Netherlands matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Johann Georg Mezger died in 1909, aged 71. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown — 1870
- Royal Order of the Polar Star — 1871
- Order of St. Olav — 1873
- Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion — 1875
- Order of the Wendish Crown — 1878
