Johannes Jacob Wecker practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Johannes Jacob Wecker as Swiss physician.
Johannes Jacob Wecker was born at Basel in 1528. His recorded nationality is Switzerland. He trained at University of Basel.
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.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Switzerland matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Johannes Jacob Wecker died in 1586, aged 58. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Basel
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