In the history of medicine, Johannes Orth is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Johannes Orth as German pathologist (1847-1923).
Johannes Orth was born at Wallmerod in 1847. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at University of Bonn.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at University of Göttingen and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Johannes Orth died in 1923, aged 76. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Göttingen and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
