Leonard Erskine Hill practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Leonard Erskine Hill as British physiologist (1866-1952).
Leonard Erskine Hill was born at Bruce Castle in 1866. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He trained at Haileybury and Imperial Service College.
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 London.
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 and Baly Medal (1919).
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.
Leonard Erskine Hill died in 1952, aged 86. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Baly Medal — 1919
- Held posts at University of London
- Fields: medicine
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