John Russell Reynolds practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists John Russell Reynolds as British neurologist and physician (1828–1896).
John Russell Reynolds was born at Romsey in 1828. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at University College London.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The recorded fields of work are medicine.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
Recognition followed: Fellow of the Royal Society.
That the work was done from United Kingdom matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
John Russell Reynolds died in 1896, aged 68. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Fields: medicine
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