In the history of medicine, Johann Georg von Zimmermann is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Johann Georg von Zimmermann as Swiss philosophical writer, naturalist, and physician (1728–1795).
Johann Georg von Zimmermann was born at Brugg in 1728. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
Hospitals became teaching institutions in this period, and clinical observation began to be recorded systematically.
The recorded fields of work are 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 Georg von Zimmermann died in 1795, aged 67. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fields: medicine
