Leonard Landois practised at a period when medicine itself was being rebuilt on new foundations.
The record lists Leonard Landois as German physiologist (1837–1902).
Leonard Landois was born at Münster in 1837. His recorded nationality is Germany. He trained at University of Greifswald and Gymnasium Paulinum.
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 Greifswald.
Clinical knowledge is accumulated slowly and revised often, usually at some cost.
That the work was done from Germany matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Leonard Landois died in 1902, aged 65. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
Achievements
- Held posts at University of Greifswald
