Johann Winter von Andernach is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Johann Winter von Andernach as German physician, scholar and humanist.
Johann Winter von Andernach was born at Andernach in 1505. He trained at UCLouvain.
Dissection returned in this period and overturned inherited anatomy, which had been copied without checking for centuries.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
Johann Winter von Andernach died in 1574, aged 69. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
