Lazar Minor is remembered in medicine for work that altered practice rather than merely argument.
The record lists Lazar Minor as Russian neurologist (1855–1942).
Lazar Minor was born at Vilnius in 1855. His recorded nationality is Russia. He trained at Lomonosov Moscow State University.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
His posts were held at Medical faculty of Moscow University.
Most medical progress is invisible: it shows up as an illness that no longer kills anyone.
That the work was done from Russia matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Lazar Minor died in 1942, aged 87. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at Medical faculty of Moscow University
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