In the history of medicine, Jonathan Hutchinson is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Jonathan Hutchinson as English surgeon, ophthalmologist, dermatologist, venereologist, and pathologist (1823-1913).
Jonathan Hutchinson was born at Selby in 1828. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at London and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
The test of medical work is whether practice changed, not whether the argument was elegant.
Recognition followed: Moxon Medal.
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.
Jonathan Hutchinson died in 1913, aged 85. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Moxon Medal
