Louis Delasiauve belongs to the medical record as a figure whose work changed what could be treated.
The record lists Louis Delasiauve as French psychiatrist (1804-1893).
Louis Delasiauve was born at Garennes-sur-Eure in 1804. His recorded nationality is France.
Anaesthesia, antisepsis and germ theory arrived within fifty years and made modern surgery possible for the first time.
Medicine advances against a moving target, and its successes are counted in lives rather than papers.
That the work was done from France matters: hospitals, training and research funding are unevenly distributed, and they decide which questions can be asked.
Louis Delasiauve died in 1893, aged 89. What survives is the change in practice, which is how a medical life is actually measured.
